{"id":1916971,"date":"2023-04-20T02:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-on-your-hands-trans-lawmaker-lashes-out-during-hearing-on-bill-banning-trans-surgeries-for-children\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T02:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T06:56:28","slug":"blood-on-your-hands-trans-lawmaker-lashes-out-during-hearing-on-bill-banning-trans-surgeries-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-on-your-hands-trans-lawmaker-lashes-out-during-hearing-on-bill-banning-trans-surgeries-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blood On Your Hands\u2019: Trans Lawmaker Lashes Out During Hearing On Bill Banning Trans Surgeries For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblood-on-your-hands-trans-lawmaker-lashes-out-during-hearing-on-bill-banning-trans-surgeries-for-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916971&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A transgender state lawmaker lashed out at colleagues during a debate on a bill to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender-surgery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender surgeries<\/a> for minors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montana<\/a> State Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D-Missoula), a transgender person, lashed out at Republican lawmakers in the state on Tuesday while the state House of Representatives debated amendments to a bill banning transgender surgery for minors. Zephyr said the lawmakers had \u201cblood on their hands.\u201d Republicans in turn moved to censure Zephyr for the comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I will say is if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments, I hope the next time there\u2019s an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands,\u201d Zephyr said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rep Zooey Zephyr of Missoula said the following when debating SB99 Amendments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I will say is if you vote yes on this bill and yes on these amendments I hope the next time there\u2019s an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wuhlympbLq\">pic.twitter.com\/wuhlympbLq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Montana Freedom Caucus (@MTFreedomCaucus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTFreedomCaucus\/status\/1648441274868043777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Montana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freedom Caucus<\/a>, a group of more than 20 conservative state legislators, called for Zephyr to be censured for the comments. \u201cThe Montana Freedom Caucus demands Representative Zooey Zephyr of Missoula\u2019s House District 100 be censured by the House for attempting to shame the Montana legislative body and by using inappropriate and uncalled-for language during a floor debate over amendments concerning Senate Bill 99 \u2014 to ban sex changes of minor children,\u201d the Montana Freedom Caucus wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MTFreedomCaucus\/status\/1648486168122757130\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThis bill already passed the Montana House and Senate, and the debate was over amendments requested by the governor. The amendments were concurred in on a 66-34 vote. This bill is important because it protects minor children from forced life-altering and unnecessary surgical procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile individual legislators have condemned his behavior, the legislature itself has not yet issued a collective statement acknowledging the wrongdoing and upholding a commitment to civil discourse,\u201d the lawmakers continued. \u201cThis kind of hateful rhetoric from an elected official is exactly why tragedies such as the Covenant Christian School shooting in Nashville occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They also cited a former Montana Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/local\/james-nelson-a-former-justice-on-the-montana-supreme-court\/video_f05cd183-5a94-57fd-adb0-3c4af2b07e44.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">justice<\/a> who called Republican-backed judicial reforms a \u201cjihad\u201d and a \u201cfight to the death.\u201d \u201c[T]here is unmistakable evidence of a desire for some to engage in violence over political beliefs,\u201d the group concluded. \u201cThis must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Montana State Senate passed <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/transgender-healthcare-ban-minors-montana-049eb8f098ce297b52ce2973839ad1f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Bill 99<\/a> in late March. The bill would ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgery for minors. It also bans state Medicaid funds from covering transgender medication or surgery. Violators would be liable to losing their license for a period of one year. Montana Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvh.com\/news\/68th-session\/gianforte-requests-amendment-to-a-bill-banning-gender-affirming-care-for-minors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Gianforte<\/a> line-item vetoed the bill, and returned the bill to the legislature affirming his support for the bill while requesting amendments.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs currently written, Senate Bill 99 provides an imprecise definition of \u2018male\u2019 and \u2018female,\u2019\u201d Gianforte wrote. \u201cAs currently written, the bill does not contemplate treatment for a child requiring a necessary medical procedure because he or she was born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development. Finally, as currently written, the bill is unclear about public funding restrictictions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s amendments included amended defintions that reinforce the binary between male and female, provide carve-outs for necessary medical treatments like menopause or cancer requiring removal of sex organs, and clarify that public funding may not be used on any transgender medical treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A transgender state lawmaker lashed out at colleagues during a debate on a bill to ban transgender surgeries for minors. Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D-Missoula), a transgender person, lashed out at Republican lawmakers in the state on Tuesday while the state House of Representatives debated amendments to a bill banning transgender surgery for minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1916972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6492,7079,4294,6307,3679,6678,3914,7419,7037],"class_list":["post-1916971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-banning","tag-blood","tag-children","tag-hands","tag-hearing","tag-lashes","tag-lawmaker","tag-surgeries","tag-trans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}