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Montana bill to keep trans women out of female sports clears hurdle as Trump signs order

On the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order prohibiting transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports, members of the Montana Legislature celebrated similar efforts at the state level. A proposal from Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe, a Billings Republican, that would bar people assigned male at birth

MT bill to criminalize providing some health care treatments to trans kids clears Senate

A bill that would make it a crime for adults to help transgender youth access certain medical treatments cleared the Montana Senate on Tuesday with the support of all but two Republicans. Senate Bill 164, sponsored by Sen. John Fuller, R-Kalispell, would make it a felony under Montana’s

Bathroom access, sports and health care: lawmakers debate slate of transgender bills

Three bills that would curb the rights of transgender people continue to march through the Montana Legislature, despite similar past legislative efforts not standing muster in the courts. Legislation that would ban trans individuals from certain bathrooms, criminalize people who help minors obtain gender-affirming care and restrict the participation

Sarah Johnson-Palomaki’s book explores Hollywood’s relationship with gender

Sarah Johnson-Palomaki’s book explores Hollywood’s relationship with gender

When Sarah Johnson-Palomaki — better known to her students and colleagues as “Dr. J.P.” — walks into a classroom, she carries more than a stack of lecture notes. She brings several years' worth of her research and literature, including chapters of her new book, “Cinema and Feminism: A Quick

Montana 'bathroom bill' poised to pass House after preliminary vote

A bill that would prohibit transgender people from using restrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth is poised to pass the Montana House of Representatives. Lawmakers cast preliminary votes along party lines on Wednesday to support the legislation that defines sex as binary. Sex, according to

Montana ‘bathroom bill’ passes committee on party lines

A bill that would require people to use only those bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth — including transgender people — passed the House Judiciary Committee on Monday along partisan lines. House Bill 121 defines sex as either male or female, determined by a person’s biological or genetic

Documents regarding Patricia Anderson’s fight for equality shared with MSU

Documents regarding Patricia Anderson’s fight for equality shared with MSU

The MSU Library Archives received an oral history of Patricia Anderson’s experience filing a discrimination lawsuit against MSU at the end of August this year. Anderson won the lawsuit and changed the workplace experience at MSU for future generations of women. In 1990, Anderson filed a suit with the