Zooey Zephyr — Montana’s first openly transgender woman in the Legislature — was barred from the legislative floor in late April. Since then, Zephyr and her fiancée, Erin Reed, who monitors anti-LGBTQ+ bills nationwide, have emerged as a power couple.
for the Seattle Sounders in the past month. Reed circulates a policy newsletter and has amassed a following of more than 400,000 on TikTok, where she posts videos about legislation and encourages other trans people to testify in legislatures.Ogden, a college student in Columbus, Ohio, did not intend to become an activist when she started sitting in on committee meetings at the state legislature in 2021 to learn about the bills affecting her life.
“My intention wasn’t to be super public when I started doing this stuff, and then I got kind of dragged in,” Ogden says. “That’s where Zooey and Erin ended up being like life preservers. They do that for a lot of people.” “I remember thinking that she was really cute and that I really liked her. And so, like, I brushed my hair behind my ear and I thought I was really slick and sly,” Reed recalls.Reed now shares what she learns about national legislative trends with Zephyr to help frame her understanding of Montana bills.
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