Montana’s first and only transgender lawmaker Rep. Zooey Zephyr and the ACLU are suing the speaker of the Montana House after Zephyr was censured and barred from the House chamber for comments she made during a debate on transgender-care ban for youths. ACLU’s Montana Legal Director Alex Rate joins Meet the Press NOW.
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tell the truth about montana, please
I love how they continue feeding his narcissism and delusion by using his preferred personal pronouns
It's equal parts hilarious and sad
Thanos did the right thing in the Avengers movie when he wiped out life.
I do not believe children should be making decisions on transgender issues until they are 21 years old and have some experience
I beleive this transgender person has brought all this on by its self (sorry not sure what to call it.)
Absolute abuse of power from trans phobic morons,
Never listen to a woman with chest hair
Never listen to a woman with chest hair
We don't allow sick mental cases who are confused about their gender to dictate policy.
I'm proud to be an MT ACLU member who supports Rep. Zephyr and diversity. White christian nationalist fascists have taken over the governor's office and the power hungry republican controlled legislature. Their fascist agenda will ultimately fail.
He should accept his punishment and take it like a man.
Its fun to play pretend. He's pretending he's a girl and now is pretending he's being percecuted for pretending he's a girl but really he's in trouble for breaking rules and is being treated just like any other rule breakers.
Creepy.
The ACLU is a jewish Supremacist organization. Notice how they've remained completely mum about Sheila Jackson-Lee's "White Supremacy" bill which is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to curb Free Speech by keeping white people from pointing out that jews are behind the Great Replacement.
This is insanity. Get this gender bending nonsense out of society.
These freaks must be driven away
That's a MAN in a woman's dress and panties with chafing balls 🚫🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚫
People are fed up with the sickness 🚫🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🚫
I hate her martyr face. Oooooh, they won’t let doctors mutilate children anymore 😭😭😭 Poor me!
The ACLU and smeagol want surgeries for children… obsessed with sexualizing children these people are beyond deviant.
They are dangerous… These kids might realize in a year that it was just a PHASE, but it's IRREVERSIBLE Surgery.
Get rid of her! It appears that he/she is more concerned about trans rights than the fate of US Veterans who defended the US Constitution so she can have her selfish complaints.
Whats that new thing now , identify with disability, doctors cut off your limbs……..
People who think they are protecting children by blocking access to medical care are totally ignorant of the experiences of trans adults, trans children, the parents of trans children, or the medical community. It is so sad how people fall in line without even exploring what the other side has to say.
Medical experts say Republican lawmakers’ rhetoric falsely claims that doctors and parents are allowing children to go through irreversible medical treatments.
The problem is that most people, Republicans and Democrats, don’t know what gender-affirming care for minors actually is.
It’s defined as individualized care oriented toward understanding and appreciating a person’s gender.
Under the gender-affirming model of care, more time is spent allowing kids to socially transition instead of focusing on medical treatment. A social transition consists of the steps a child takes to affirm their identity. An example could include allowing a child assigned male at birth to grow their hair longer or use a different name and wear clothing that better fits their identity.
Sometimes, more medical support is needed for the child. Puberty or hormone blockers are used to give a transgender kid time before deciding what permanent transition-related treatment they want.
Puberty blockers are a type of medical treatment that delays puberty. They are completely reversible.
It is not uncommon for puberty blockers to also be a treatment for children who aren’t transgender. Since early onset puberty can cause health issues into adulthood, they have been an approved medical treatment for children for decades.
Some transgender children have more advanced medical procedures, like starting testosterone therapy. Those instances are rare, especially if they are allowed to go on puberty blockers, which give them more time to decide what medical procedures they want in the future when they are an adult.
Medical experts say transgender children rarely if ever have surgeries like orchiectomies, hysterectomies and mastectomies before they're adults.
Language in legislation targeting medical care for transgender children didn't reflect this reality, however. One bill filed during last year’s legislative sessions by state Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, Texas sought to ban “gender transitioning” and listed procedures that do not fall under gender-affirming care. The bill did not pass.
Many Republicans are using language that leads people to believe that most trans kids are taking puberty blockers, testosterone, and having surgeries. As you read, that is false. They’re proposing and passing legislation and trying to provoke Democrats to argue with them bcuz it gives the public the impression that “Democrats want kids to take hormone therapies and they support gender-reassignment surgery for minors.”
Don’t fall for the banana in the tailpipe, folks. ✌🏼
Time to cancel all of mankind. We tried. We lost.
Zooey? I dont think so. His real name is Zachary Raasch. Address him accordingly.
They should ban him from earth seend him to the moon with his mental health issues
Again people this is our system.. you have the right to speak against something you may disagree with.. this nation was founded on protest.. remember the Boston tea party? Whether you agree with her life choices or not she is still a elected official and deserves respect as such.. As a trans person myself you cannot understand what gender dysphoria is unless you experience it.. if you don't suffer from it then be thankful that you don't.
Zephyr is a man, a very troubled man
Rep Zephyr is making history💙 I am so proud of her and her hard work standing up to her community and constituents
These transphobic spam comments are disgusting. Hopeful for a better future for the LGBTQ community 💙
Leftist Democrats and anti-civil rights leftist activist (ACLU) still mad at democracy in Montana LOL
I absolutely love just how shocked and appalled progressives are about not getting their way in a super majority conservative right wing state.
Zooey Zephr is about as transgender as half the people who use the disabled parking spot at a super market are disabled. If it doesn't look like a duck or quack like a duck….
No they banned child mutilation because we’re not some barbaric third world country 😆
It's not "care" if it's destructive.
This representative makes the ACLU sound like an anti-democractic organization.
This is a ban for minors. All these news are stupid and lying everyday.
this what happens when you drink a Bud light 💁🏻