country hadn t heard of so we zephyr, but as the montana legislation was in session that year, she was paying close attention to the bills that were introduced, and she was fervently tweeting about them. zephyr is a trans woman. she was enraged by something called s b to 80, a piece of legislation which would ve made it difficult for transgender people to update their birth certificate. she commented on twitter, quote, having my birth certificate updated, and having it remove my that name, meaning the name that a transgender was given at birth, but no longer goes by, is one of the greatest joys i ve experienced. moments later, the bill passed the state senate by the slimmest of margins with a vote of 26 to 24. zephyr took note and wrote, quote, it would only take one person to have protected my community from discrimination. if that doesn t make it clear that we need trans representation and government, i don t know what will. ten minutes later, she tweeted again, quote, i am
we are going to be in your face about it. and everyone has their own way of doing it. what works in my oklahoma, super majority legislature, may not work for my colleagues in california. and so, navigating your waters that works best for you, i think we have to be tolerant of that, even though we are in the same party, my district demographics are different from my colleagues in california. and so, we may have, we may say we re all blue, but some of us are light blue, some of us are electric blue, some of us are powder blue. and leaving space for people to be humans, a lot of times, we automatically get dehumanized when we get a title because people put us in a box, in a party, and all of our experience show up to the capital with us. and we have to use that to get things done. and sometimes, that means being disruptive or having the hard conversations. and sometimes, that means playing by the rules. each situation calls for something different. and we have to be tolerant of how people