Republican lawmakers in Montana are expected to consider disciplinary action against Rep. Zooey Zephyr Wednesday afternoon after the state's only transgender lawmaker spoke out against a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors.
And his Republican colleague, U.S. Sen. Steve Daines — whofor president — said that there is a responsibility to"avoid extreme rhetoric and violence."
“There is a long and dark history of mobilizing civility discourse to silence the voices of marginalized people, when they speak plainly about the human costs of their oppression,” Rushing told Yahoo News. “In this sense, what is happening in Montana is following a predictable script. But as we saw in Tennessee a few weeks back, those who deploy this tactic can’t always control the outcome.
Passing such legislation, she says, will tell “certain young people that their lives are not worthy of respect and autonomy, and by telling their parents that the medical privacy and parental rights that the Freedom Caucus has spent the last years championing, in the wake of Covid-19, do not apply to them.”
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