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Right now, my son’s life is on the line and I need your help.
My son Landon is transgender. In his words that means his mind hasn’t always matched his body. So, even though he was born a girl, he’s always known he was a boy. And when he was eleven he came out to us, and started living and presenting every day as
#TransTuesday: Fight Back!
This #TransTuesday, Equality Texas highlights a conversation between three mothers of transgender children in San Antonio about the political climate in Texas. The Legislative Special Session is underway with proposed anti-transgender bathroom ban SB 3 and other discriminatory legislation. We need your help to contact your legislators urging them to
Urgent: All Hands On Deck!
If Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and Senator Lois Kolkhorst think we aren’t going to stand up to their horrific attacks on transgender Texans, they’ve got another thing coming. With only 26 days left to stop their discriminatory bathroom bills before the end of special session, Equality Texas is ramping up
Texas ‘Bathroom Bills’: Protesters Flood Statehouse Against Bills
Senate Bill 3 is aimed at banning transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity in schools and other state-owned buildings in Texas. Already, Texas has lost $66 million in revenue from cancelled conventions. Leading business groups like the Texas Association of Businesses project $5.6 billion is on the
Phone Bank for Equality!
We need your help to defend equality and fairness in Texas! It may be summer time, but the LGBTQ community is still under attack. The Special Session will come down to the wire, and it’s one we can’t afford to lose. We are hosting phone banks all over Texas. Volunteer
The LAST thing Dan Patrick wants
Late last night Sen. Lois Kolkhorst introduced not one, but TWO anti-transgender “bathroom bills” (SB 91 and SB 3) that seek to effectively ban transgender people from all public gender-segregated facilities—including in schools. These bills, if passed, would open the floodgates of discrimination against transgender Texans—and right now, they’re slated for