The Republican supermajority in Oklahoma's legislature voted Tuesday to censure the state's first Muslim nonbinary representative who allegedly blocked law enforcement from questioning a transgender rights activist by shielding the person in the lawmaker's office last week.

Democratic state Rep. Mauree Turner will be removed from all committee assignments until the lawmaker offers an apology to the people of Oklahoma and law enforcement after Turner kept a transgender activist away from officers during a protest at the state Capitol, according to local media outlets.

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So far, Turner has shot down calls for her apology. "I think an apology for loving the people of Oklahoma is something that I cannot do," said Turner, surrounded by several Democratic colleagues. "It’s something that I actively refuse to do."

Republican House Speaker Charles McCall wrote in a press release after the party-line vote to censure Turner that he believes the lawmaker may have committed a crime.

"This member knowingly, and willfully, impeded a law enforcement investigation, harboring a fugitive and repeatedly lying to officers, and used their official office and position to thwart attempts by law enforcement to make contact with a suspect of the investigation," McCall wrote.

Turner's censure comes as the GOP-controlled legislature is moving forward on bills to block transgender procedures for minors and other forms of transgender regulations.

Last week, a protester threw water at Republican state Rep. Bob Ed Culver after the state House passed legislation that would ban insurance coverage for transgender procedures and ban such procedures for minors. A suspect was arrested on suspicion of assault, and troopers for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol attempted to find another person who interfered in the arrest. Troopers say the second person went into Turner's office, according to Republican state Rep. Anthony Moore.

But Turner has not been charged with a crime. Trooper Eric Foster, a spokesman for Oklahoma Highway Patrol, said the agency did not recommend charges to the district attorney but sent over details and information about the incident.

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"What happened last week in my office was the same thing that happens all the time," Turner said ahead of the vote on the censure motion. "People do not feel represented or protected by the people in this [legislature]. They come to find refuge in my office. They come to decompress from the most stressful times."

Elected to Oklahoma state House District 88 in 2020, Turner became the first openly nonbinary Muslim lawmaker in the state.