A district court judge has granted a temporary block on a state rule that restricts Medicaid coverage of abortion, maintaining current coverage of the procedure while a lawsuit plays out. A bill to extend funding for Montana’s Missing Indigenous Person’s Task Force has passed its final vote in the House. The legislation would renew the working group through 2033.
attack marginalized communities. that s not what we should be doing. you see, correct me if i m, wrong you see a through line through all of these. you talked about how the expansions in tennessee, your ban on santa, they re attempts to marginalize lawmakers, they are all one in the same effort. expand on that. we ve seen tennessee, we ve seen it here. and i know in montana, what s happened to me, when the process was happening here, the members of the native american caucus, the american indian caucus and montano stood. up one of the first people to stand up for me and say this through line, yeah, trans people are a target right now in this moment in our state. that through line has a long history of america and its politics. to, me what you see, is when marginalized communities stand up and hold people accountable to the real harm that legislation does, it s not enough for the right to have the votes to pass.
The Montana House of Representatives’ decision to censor Montana’s openly transgender legislator, Democrat Zooey Zephyr from Missoula, holds a grave message for LGBTQIA+ people in the state and the 11,000