Rules DuJour

It seems like the new "In Thing" with the Republicans is to keep trans legislators with their legs crossed looking for a bathroom to use,

Montana lawmakers cross the aisle to block a trans bathroom ban in the state capitol

NPR

By Rachel Treisman

December 4, 2024

Lawmakers in Montana crossed party lines this week to reject a measure that would have banned a transgender representative from using the women's bathroom at the state Capitol.

Several Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against the proposal at a meeting of the Joint House and Senate Rules Committees on Tuesday.

The proposed rule would have designated two bathrooms — located between the House and Senate chambers — as male and female and required legislators to use the one that aligned with their sex chromosomes at birth.

"It says what probably shouldn't need to be said and puts in the rules what probably shouldn't need to be put in the rules … that the gals' restroom will be used only by gals and the guys' restroom will be used only by [guys]," Republican Rep. Jerry Schillinger, who proposed the measure, said at Tuesday's meeting.

The lawmakers did not name names but implied that the rule was aimed at Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr, who was elected the state's first transgender legislator in 2022 and won a second term last month.

Do you remember Rep. Zephyr? I wrote about her last year... "Silenced!" when the Republicans kicked her out of the House.

During the nearly 15-minute discussion — in which no women participated — lawmakers in favor of the rule said it would safeguard women's spaces, while those opposed questioned its utility and how it would be enforced.

Do you remember what the Maryland legislature did when McBride was elected... you don't? Well that is because they did nothing. It is only the Republicans who have a hissy fit and are obsessed with what is between a persons legs.

Isn't it funny that Democratic states don't seem to have any problems with trans women using women's bathroom.... zero incidents! But in Republican states they seem to be preoccupy with genitalia. I really think that they should find a therapist about their obsession.