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Governor Gianforte, Speaker Ler Statement on Senate Bill 437
HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte and House Speaker Brandon Ler released the following statement after a group sued to halt the enactment of Senate Bill 437:
“Senate Bill 437 was duly passed and signed into law by the people’s elected representatives. This law codifies the long-recognized, commonsense, immutable, biologically-based definition of sex, male and female, while protecting people born intersex and not infringing on transgender individuals’ ability to identify with whatever gender, but not sex, they wish.
“We are proud of our work to defend the values of the Montanans we represent. To no one’s surprise, activists have moved to add this law into ongoing litigation to stop it from going into effect. The Legislature acted deliberately with that possibility in mind. The State of Montana will defend this duly enacted law and ensure it gets a fair hearing in Montana’s judiciary.”
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