Press Contact: Johnathan Gooch, Equality Texas, (512) 922-4040
Austin, TX – Under Jim Crow, Black Texans were told they couldn’t share a restroom, a park, a pool with their white neighbors. Today Black Trans Texans are once again being cast out of public spaces.
HB32/SB7 threatens to segregate bathrooms according to cisgender and transgender. Black Texans remember the harms, Black Trans Texans carry the fight forward.
In 2017 Texas Lawmakers failed to pass a bathroom ban under overwhelming public pressure. In 2024, one Texas city tried to implement a bathroom ban, only for it to be unenforceable.
WHAT:
Press Conference, featuring the voices of Black Trans Texans & BIPOC allies. Speakers look to the past at the way Jim Crow harmed the community, and speak against the harm of a new type of division between transgender and cisgender. HB32/SB7 creates “cis-only” bathrooms.
WHO:
Speakers (additional speakers may be added):
- Rep. Ron Reynolds, Texas State Representative, House District 27
- Antonio Ingram, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Verniss McFarland, The Mahogany Project
- Safara Malone, TENT
- Chas Moore, Austin Justice Coalition
- Mick Rose, Community Member
- Miriam Laeky, Equality Texas
WHERE:
Texas Capitol, South Steps
1100 Congress Ave.
Austin, TX 78701
Parking Available Here
WHEN:
Wednesday, July 30, at 10am
LIVESTREAM:
YouTube: https://bit.ly/aifeequal
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Equality Texas is the largest statewide organization working to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
