Transgender Montana lawmaker sues over silencing and censure.

The ACLU has sued Montana and its Republican House Speaker for violating a Democratic transgender legislator's First Amendment rights by barring her from the House floor after she protested a bill banning gender-affirming healthcare for minors. The ACLU alleges that barring her from the House floor for her comments "extinguishes a vital part of the job her constituents elected her to do." Montana's governor signed the bill into law on Friday, two days after the Republican House majority voted to censure Zooey Zephyr and exclude her from the House chamber for the rest of the legislative session for saying in an April 18 floor debate that denying such care would lead to more suicides.