With 2021 proving to be a record year for anti-transgender legislation in statehouses across the country, activists in Montana are trying to change perceptions on the ground in the wake of three of those bills becoming law.
Izzy Milch, a 24-year-old queer, nonbinary person who is an advocacy organizer with Forward Montana, said many of the debates about those bills were chock-full of ignorance, both willful and not. "It's become really clear a majority of Montanans have no idea what it means to be trans," Milch told the Bay Area Reporter. "So we are really trying to shift that narrative by working with educators about how to work with queer students and build community between trans Montanans and their neighbors, to clear up these