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Heated floor exchange over HB 148 as member reads names of transgender victims
Summary
Representative Wade used floor time to read the names of transgender people who died and urged sustaining the governor's veto of HB 148; other members objected to the content's germaneness, prompting a roll call on whether she could continue.
During consideration of the governor's veto on House Bill 148 (provisions permitting classification by biological sex under certain circumstances), Representative Wade addressed the chamber at length, framing the bill as dehumanizing to transgender people and citing Trans Day of Remembrance. She read aloud a list of transgender people who had died and urged colleagues to press the red button to sustain the governor's veto.
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