as either man or woman into a state law that would eliminate legal recognition of intersex, transgender and nonbinary residents.
The ACLU Montana has already promised to take legal action alongside Lambda Legal, a civil rights organization that focuses on the LGBTQ community, by challenging any state ban on gender-affirming care in court.
“Montana House Republican Leadership is acting with petulance and cowardice towards Rep. Zephyr,” Keegan Medrano, Policy Director of ACLU Montana, told Yahoo News, adding that the organization has been in contact with Zephyr and is willing to support her on “any future steps”. “Throughout the session, Montana Republicans have mobilized their supermajority to cruelly punish, immiserate, and ultimately extinguish LGBTQ Montanans for their own political gain, but they could not contain their anger, disdain, and disgust towards their fellow Montanans and are punishing a trans legislator because they can,” Medrano continued. “The cruelty is the point and lays bare the lie that they want us to be saved, they want us gone.
Ahead of Wednesday's vote, Sara Rushing, a professor of political science at Montana State University, told Yahoo News that any attempt to further silence Zephyr will in turn only make it harder on medical practitioners and caregivers seeking to advocate for trans youth. "Many of Montana's communities are severely underserved when it comes to healthcare, and making it harder to treat and support vulnerable youth is paradoxically being pitched as a 'youth protection' effort," Rushing said, noting that Montana has a youth suicide rate
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