{"id":35372,"date":"2025-03-07T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/stop-these-crazy-bills-republicans-join-democrats-to-defeat-anti-trans-legislation-in-montana\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:20:22","slug":"stop-these-crazy-bills-republicans-join-democrats-to-defeat-anti-trans-legislation-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/stop-these-crazy-bills-republicans-join-democrats-to-defeat-anti-trans-legislation-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop these crazy bills\u2019: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/07\/donald-trump-tariffs-china-canada-mexico-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republican lawmakers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/montana\">Montana<\/a> voted en masse to help defeat two extreme anti-trans bills in an unprecedented move on Thursday, after powerful speeches from two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/transgender\">trans<\/a> representatives imploring them to reject the latest intent to criminalize gender nonconformity.<\/p>\n<p>State representative Zooey Zephyr spoke out against a bill that sought to ban drag performances and Pride parades in Montana, introduced by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> member of of the house who has referred to transgenderism as a \u201cfetish based on crossdressing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/07\/montana-anti-trans-bills-defeated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches US politics live \u2013 latest updates Republican lawmakers in Montana voted en masse to help defeat two extreme anti-trans bills in an unprecedented move on Thursday, after powerful speeches from two trans representatives imploring them to &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Stop these crazy bills\u2019: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/stop-these-crazy-bills-republicans-join-democrats-to-defeat-anti-trans-legislation-in-montana\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Stop these crazy bills\u2019: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}