The Toilet Tiff Goes West

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When the people of Delaware elected Sarah McBride to represent them in Congress, Republican House members responded by seeking to ban the openly transgender Democrat from the women's bathrooms.

Some lawmakers in Montana plainly thought that was a fabulous idea. Republicans pushed a measure that would require state legislators to use the restrooms of their birth sexes. The target was Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Montana's only trans legislator.

Today the proposed ban failed, with several Republicans voting against it. I'm not suggesting that cooler heads are starting to prevail in the bathroom wars, but it's nice that, at least in Montana's capital city of Helena, they canned the commode conniptions.