Zephyr, Montana’s first openly trans lawmaker, later called the measure a “distraction from the work we were elected to do” and thanked colleagues who voted against it.

Trans lawmaker who was censured by the state legislator before her reelection says effort to bar her from using women’s bathroom is a ‘distraction from the work we were elected to do’

Republicans in Montana helped block a measure that would bar trans lawmakers from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identities in the state Capitol.