Recent News

The legislative session hasn’t even started and already some Texas lawmakers are filing bills designed to restrict the rights of LGBT Texans. Today, those lawmakers are getting a wake up call. This morning, members of Keep Texas Open for Business—a coalition of businesses working to block legislation that would give “license to

This #TransTuesday, Equality Texas is highlighting the Richie family from Houston. 14-year old Landon Richie is a transgender boy thriving because of the unconditional love of his family. Watch and share his video with the hashtag #TransTuesday.

After months of doubling down on the discriminatory anti-transgender HB 2, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has officially lost his re-election bid to Attorney General Roy Cooper, who currently leads by 10,000 votes. Today’s result is a clear rejection of anti-transgender discrimination and lawmakers who support it—and elected officials in Texas should

RSVP today for our upcoming Transgender Educational Panel. An open forum for learning and discussing the challenges met by the transgender community. Hear first hand experiences from our panelists, and learn how to be an effective ally to the transgender community. For more information visit: http://bit.ly/2g0O2a9

This #TransTuesday, Equality Texas is highlighting the Castro family from Mansfield, Texas. Roxie Castro is a transgender girl who is an exemplary student and thriving as her authentic self. Watch and share this video with the hashtag #TransTuesday.

Equality Texas is proud to bring you the fifth in our Issue Brief series: Comprehensive Nondiscrimination. As the last in our pre-session series, we want to end on pro-equality legislation we expect to see and are already seeing proposed for 2017. A comprehensive nondiscrimination bill, SB 165, has been proposed along