Montana House advances transgender bathroom bill after prior effort affecting 1st state trans lawmaker
The Montana House of Representatives has advanced a transgender bathroom ban, the first to do so in the 2025 session.
Montana Just Became the First State to Advance Anti-Trans Bathroom Legislation in 2025
The bill claims that “there are exactly two sexes” and would restrict the use of bathrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping areas in public buildings based on that definition.
Montana 'bathroom bill' poised to pass House after preliminary vote
I would ask that you leave trans people alone,” Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, said Wednesday. “Let me be the woman I am happy to be. Let me live my life.”
Montana House endorses biological sex bathroom bill
House Bill 121 which would require transgender people to use the bathroom that aligns with their sex at birth passed a key vote in the Montana House of Representatives.
House Republicans approve transgender bathroom bill
Montana Republican representatives advanced a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of public accommodations.
Montana House endorses transgender bathroom ban affecting fellow lawmakers
Montana’s House is has endorsed a ban on transgender people using bathrooms in public buildings that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth
Sex-segregated bathroom bill clears key House vote
House lawmakers in the Montana Legislature on Wednesday preliminarily approved a bill that requires bathroom and sleeping-area use based on a person’s chromosomes and reproductive biology.
In Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr,’ Montana Republicans Try To Silence Trans Legislator, But She Won’t Have It
Zooey Zephyr will not allow herself to be marginalized, no matter how hard some people try to make that happen. She won ...
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Amendments to Montana House decorum rules spark debate
The Montana House of Representatives is working under a new set of rules after voting Tuesday along party lines to approve an ...
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MT House rules amendment grants explicit disicplinary power to the Speaker
The driving force behind the amendment appears to be connected to an incident from the 2023 session that shut down a House ...
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Montana’s legislative session opens with calls for collaboration
Ninety-nine members of Montana’s newly elected House of Representatives — Terry Falk, R-Kalispell was excused — met in their chamber on Monday afternoon to take their oaths of office.
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State of the state: Gianforte focused on budget, affordability
Gianforte did not address Medicaid expansion, which promises to be one of the big debates of the 2025 session.
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Montana Republicans eager to govern, Democrats seek compromise as legislature convenes
Montana’s politics pivoted from purple to red, and that was evident on Monday morning, with Montana’s new Supreme Court Chief Justice ...
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Montana’s 69th Legislature ready to do business
Reps. Melissa Nikolakakos, R-Great Falls, Gary Parry, R-Colstrip, and Curtis Shomer, R-Billings, take their oath of office on the first day of the 69th Legislature on Jan. 6, 2025. (Micah Drew ...