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Trans state Rep. Zoey Zephyr hailed the order blocking House Bill 121, which codified male and female genders and banned trans folks from using "restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters" that aligned with their gender identity.
Montana looks to have become the very first state to hear an anti-trans bill in 2025 — a bathroom ban targeting adult transgender people in any publicly owned building.
These trans politicians are breaking barriers around the nation.
“There is this paradox where a majority of Americans voted for Trump, who is extremely anti-trans, and yet many Americans also voted for out transgender candidates and in favor of LGBTQ rights in referendums,” A4TE executive director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen told The Advocate.
The Advocate reviewed the anti-LGBTQ+ records of some of the country’s most prominent GOP candidates for governor. It's not pretty...or accepting.
He claimed, falsely, that children of opposite-sex couples fare best in life.
The measure, opposed by transgender state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, failed with a vote of 44 to 55.
Montana courts overruled a trans health care ban in 2023, but it’s making a comeback.
A state district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking prohibitions on changes on the gender markers on driver's licenses and birth certificates.
An appeals court still blocked a provision in the legislation that vaguely banned “recruiting” pregnant youth for abortions.
Millions will now have access to abortion thanks to the passage of state constitutional amendments.
Judge Terry A. Doughty said the rule goes against the original purpose of Title IX by protecting trans students, so he blocked its enforcement in Louisiana, Mississippi, Idaho, and Montana.
These Republican-controlled states are fighting to discriminate against students.
The Trevor Project's recent survey of LGBTQ+ mental health has "grim" findings.
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
A total of 19 U.S. states have enacted new laws impacting adult film platforms — some of which are preparing for the possibility of a ban.
Those who sued to challenge the ban are likely to succeed in proving it violates their privacy rights, the court ruled.
A measure that would have prohibited the transgender lawmaker from using the women's restroom failed in committee Tuesday, with even several Republicans voting against it.
Zephyr tells The Advocate about Republicans' Capitol Hill bathroom ban, the state of trans rights, and a new documentary about her censure, Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr.
Republicans voted to bar Zephyr from speaking on the floor of the state legislature in 2023 after she said that conservatives' ban on gender-affirming care for youth would result in “blood on [their] hands.”
