Fri Apr 28, 2023 – 5:19 pm EDT
HELENA, Montana (LifeSiteNews) — Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives officially voted to censure a transgender-identifying legislator for the duration of the session after he violated House rules with a histrionic accusation that Republicans protecting kids from irreversible trans drugs and surgeries had “blood on your hands.”
House members approved the measure to punish gender-confused first-term Democratic state Rep. “Zooey” Zephyr in a 68-32 vote Wednesday. Zephyr is thereby barred from participating in debates for the duration of the legislative session, which ends next week, though he can still vote remotely.
Just before the House voted to censure him, Zephyr attempted to defend his previous statements, arguing “was not being hyperbolic” and continuing to insist that bills protecting kids from irreversible trans interventions are getting his “community… killed.”
The move to censure Zephyr came after the transgender-identifying lawmaker expressed strong opposition to a Montana bill that would prohibit destructive puberty-blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating transgender surgeries for minors. Many other states have passed similar laws in a bid to protect children from the irreversible effects of the experimental interventions.
Montana’s bill, SB99, was returned to the legislature
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