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Lege Week 20 Wrap-up: Sine Die is within sight
Last Tuesday as the clock struck midnight, all 30+ anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed this session were officially dead, including 13 direct attacks on transgender youth. It’s been a long, hard road to get here and we absolutely could not have done it without you, our partner organizations or our LGBTQ+ champions
Trans Kids Deserve…To NOT Be Targeted
These bills give bullies state-sanctioned instructions to further exclude, harass, and abuse trans youth. Even if these bills do not pass, this “debate” has made Texas less safe for my child.
Lege Week 19 Wrap-up: Everyone can play a role in defeating anti-trans legislation
We’re right down to the wire on important deadlines for the Texas legislature which will determine whether the attacks on transgender kids pass into law. The deadline for Senate bills to be debated on the House floor — one of the final steps of the legislative process before they become
Lege Week 18 Wrap-up: Boiling down heartbreak to 120 seconds
We’ve made it through the first major deadline of the 87th Legislative Session. As of yesterday at midnight, any House bill that has not yet been heard on the House floor is dead, including medical care bans like HB 1399 (Krause) and HB 68 (Toth) and sports bans like HB
Lege Week 17 Wrap-up: Pettiness and retribution bring harm to trans youth
In the #txlege, nothing is truly “dead” until Sine Die. We saw that clearly this week. This past Tuesday SB 29 (Perry), the bill that would ban transgender youth from participating in sports, failed on a vote by the House Public Education committee. At 9:30 this morning the Chair of
Lege Week 16 Wrap-up: Staying vigilant
It’s been another big week at the legislature. Both chambers again held votes targeting transgender Texans — and there’s still a month left in the legislative session. In the Senate SB 1646 (Perry), which criminalizes parents, doctors, and guardians who provide best-practice, life-saving care for transgender youth, passed the Senate