What’s really behind Republicans’ mounting transphobia?

And why all of us must speak out against it.

Zooey Zephyr, State Representative for the 100th District of the Montana House of Representatives. Source: Keren Carrión/NPR

Friends,

For a second week, Montana Republicans have blocked Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in a debate over proposed restrictions on transgender youth.

Zephyr, a first-term Democrat from Missoula and…