BREAKING: A measure to ban trans Representative Zooey Zephyr from using women's restrooms has FAILED to pass Montana's House Rules committee, with several Republicans voting against it.
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Mind your own business, people! Surely there are hungry children and homeless families who need your help. There are doors on those cubicles, you know.
At first I was surprised that the Montana House was more progressive on this than the US House. But I think it's just comes down to actually knowing and meeting people. I'd imagine local reps know each other more personally, and Zephyr's in her second term, whereas Sarah McBride was just elected.
A friend of mine in the Maine House has said there are so many times her Republican colleagues buck their party only once the issue personally affects them.
Imagine being the kind of person who’d vote to make a coworker sit around squeezing their legs together uncomfortably all day. They must have bad mothers.
I took down an unofficial tally of the votes from the stream. All 15 Ds plus 4 Rs vote no, 21 Rs vote yes, measure fails (I don't know how many votes it needed to pass). https://ambignostic.com/doc/SJ-1PD0123-rollcall.pdf
Good, let's talk about the bathroom at Mar-lardo that held trumps stolen classified documents that he couldn't sell before the F.B.I. took them back! That's the only bathroom that needs to be talked about!
We should just go back to open stalled massive public restrooms to completely do away with whatever Republicans like to do with each other in the bathrooms. We all drop trou and poop together or bust
I poop allegiance to the poop of the United States of Poop, and to drop my trousers and poop where I stand, one nation under a pile of poop, indivisible, with liberty and poopage for all.
While I applaud this, I am simultaneously despondent that "government votes not to force women to piss in a bucket or something" is some kind of moral victory in this day and age.
It is weird to put this much effort into preventing one person from using the bathroom.
If only they could utilize all that energy and effort towards something more profound, like preventing a felon from taking office... Wouldn't that be nice?
Honestly, this seems pretty important right now to send a message to the other states although it’s incredibly shameful that we have to do this in fraking 2024
Or the people who think that predators are regularly going through the charade of dressing as a woman to enter a public place and commit violent crimes.
While ignoring the actual crimes outside of washrooms committed by cis gendered people.
Always has been. They, unlike most conservatives today, believe stay out of my life should apply to everyone - not just themselves. There are obvious exceptions, especially with increased migration of further right conservatives.
I mean yall don't have a choice but to be the "Leave me alone state" you gotta travel over the mountains and traverse the badlands for a day to even find someone else lol
I keep thinking we need a Vetinari in DC but of course we don’t, he is a tyrant after all although mostly benevolent. But we sure as hell need some Vimeses in the police!
that's good news....seems a few of these Republicans actually grasp the fact that they have gender neutral bathrooms in their houses.....and no one has died from the vapors using them....
Good. Also notice how that says House Rules
Committee and doesn’t make anyone pushing for that famous? Apply that to the Rep. from SC, just the issue without the theatrics so they aren’t rewarded.
These same Republicans want to privatize social services and gut "entitlements" to poor people. Just because they showed an ounce of humanity once doesn't make them decent
Nothing good comes from bathroom segregation. I’m glad a few of the Montana representatives we’re working for the good of the people instead of their weird supremacy culture cult
Good. The idea that this is a topic of conversation anywhere, let alone in the halls of power, is ridiculous. We have real problems in this country and none of them have to do with which bathroom people use.
I'm sure there's multiple nuances to this, but it's amazing how differently people can think about "scary 'men'" (sarcasm, trans women are women) "going into women's bathrooms" vs. "my colleague who I know, using the bathroom that's right for her."
This is likely do to the fact that being around some one build empathy for them. Making it easier for them to see the she is in fact a woman. This is why Pride mouth and the like is so impotent.
It's a real fucked scenario where we are celebrating someone not kicked out of a restroom, but goddamn I need a W today and I'm gonna enjoy it through proxy.
I'd like to believe this victory curtailed an even greater loss. If it passed then they can say things like "look they can't even trust their senator in the bathroom" to make ever more draconian laws, so I'd almost say this is several preemptive Ws rolled into one
I’m so tired of even having these ridiculous bathroom conversation. Are there not bigger issues facing our nation that what bathroom a person uses? Smdh
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As much as it’s hard to believe, there are smart and engaging republicans out there who do remember the Constitution and what it truly stands for.
Thank you for being real.
That's their real motivation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3VigeS3K3Q
If only they could utilize all that energy and effort towards something more profound, like preventing a felon from taking office... Wouldn't that be nice?
While ignoring the actual crimes outside of washrooms committed by cis gendered people.
Good for them and the Dems that voted against this shit.
We're wonderful and horrible and don't have enough housing.
Love myself some quiet mountain time. 🥰
Others are immature teens looking at others' genitalia
Committee and doesn’t make anyone pushing for that famous? Apply that to the Rep. from SC, just the issue without the theatrics so they aren’t rewarded.
Another example that these people are truly the minority despite some of them winning election.