Montana House to Vote on Discipline for Transgender Lawmaker

Montana Republican leaders will vote on censuring or expelling transgender state representative Zooey Zephyr, who was silenced on the state House floor after telling colleagues they would "have blood on their hands" over their votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender children. Zephyr's supporters disrupted Monday's House session, and authorities arrested seven people in a confrontation that Republicans claim Zephyr had encouraged. The move to discipline Zephyr is the latest development in a standoff over whether Montana Republicans will let the lawmaker from Missoula speak unless she apologizes for her remarks last week on the proposed ban.