“I walked out yesterday with my head held high and I walked in with my head held high today, ready to do my job,” Zephyr said a day after getting banished.
returned to the Montana state capitol Thursday — spending her first day in exile working on a hallway bench outside the House chambers.
The lawmaker, the first openly transgender woman elected to Montana’s legislature, said that her removal for the rest of the session — ending next week — merely gives more oxygen to her fight.“But you do the same thing you’ve always done. You stand up in defense of your community and you … stand for the principles that they elected you to stand for,” she said.
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