Montana is one of the states in our country signing anti-queer and anti-transgender laws – among the rash of laws signed just this year, since January, in Montana, are laws that allow healthcare providers to refuse patients based on conscience, that define biological sex as only male or female, that prevent gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids, and that prohibit drag shows and drag story hours if there are minors present. These new laws will hurt Montana’s transgender residents – and that’s essentially their intention. Our guest today is raising a more specific concern, and says that Montana’s anti-transgender laws will hurt Indigenous peoples’ religious expression. Rosalyn LaPier, is an indigenous writer, environmental historian, ethnobotanist, and a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis.

Read Rosalyn LaPier’s latest publication: https://theconversation.com/new-anti-transgender-laws-will-hurt-indigenous-peoples-rights-and-religious-expression-205742

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