4. The first bill to reach the House floor was HB 675, a drag/pride ban. A previous drag ban had already been struck down by the courts after it was enforced against a transgender woman speaking about history in a library. In response, Rep. Caleb Hinkle, introduced HB 675 to circumvent that ruling. - ThreadSky

erininthemorning.com • 3 days ago

4. The first bill to reach the House floor was HB 675, a drag/pride ban. A previous drag ban had already been struck down by the courts after it was enforced against a transgender woman speaking about history in a library. In response, Rep. Caleb Hinkle, introduced HB 675 to circumvent that ruling.

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erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

4. Zooey Zephyr took to the floor. Watch her speech:

"“When the sponsor closed on this bill, he said, this bill is needed… and I quote his words… ‘because transgenderism is a fetish based on crossdressing.’ And I am here to stand before the body and say that my life is not a fetish."

floorbaba.bsky.social•3 days ago

tearing up at this

erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

5. "I was proud within a month ago to have my son up in the gallery here. Many of you on the other side met him. When I go to walk him to school, that’s not a lascivious display. That is not a fetish. That is my family. This is what these bills are trying to come after," she said.

erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

6. Then, remarkably, A republican stood: “I’m speaking as a parent and a grandmother. And I’m very emotional because I know the representative in seat 20 is also a parent. No matter what you think of that, she is doing her best to raise a child..."

peppermintpavement.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sherry ate tbh

bain8renn.bsky.social•2 days ago

this is great, but i feel like this should be a wakeup call for anyone like her that vote R or are R themselves

erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

7. “Trust the parents to do what’s right, and stop these crazy bills that are a waste of time. They’re a waste of energy. We should be working on property tax relief and not doing this sort of business on the floor of this house and having to even talk about this.”

13 R's defected, the bill died!

erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

8. SJ Howell then delivered a scathing rebuke on the bill that followed... "[a child] who is healthy, happy, living in a stable home with loving parents... and you want to remove that child from their home? We should not be doing that"

Watch the speech.

29 Republicans defected, the bill died.

erininthemorning.com•3 days ago

9. At a time when anti-trans bills are sailing through, may Dems are left wondering how to talk about them. Some, like Gavin Newsom, have chosen appeasement. Trans dems like Zephyr/Howell show a different path, the power of speaking truth in hostile spaces.

kosetsu.bsky.social•3 days ago

I love that she’s from MT, and we can keep trans folks safe here for the time being.

bigelias.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

aeirould.bsky.social•3 days ago

She’s a fucking hero, full stop

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