CNN —Montana lawmakers, including several Republicans, voted down a measure to ban the state’s first transgender legislator from using women’s restrooms at the State Capitol Tuesday. Democratic state Rep. Zooey Zephyr, who was first elected in 2022, applauded the legislators who voted against the bathroom ban in a post to social media. All Democrats, as well as several Republicans, voted against the measure. Republican state Rep. David Bedey, who did not support the bathroom ban, said while he has his own views on “the issue of gender dysphoria and how widespread it is,” he thought the measure was a distraction. The proposed bathroom ban in Montana follows an effort by national Republicans to ban Democratic Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first out transgender woman elected to Congress, from using women’s bathrooms in the US Capitol.

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