CONTACT:
DeAnne Cuellar, [email protected], 512-474-5475
WHO:
Chuck Smith, Equality Texas CEO
Chelsa Morrison, mother of transgender girl
Rachel Gonzales, mother of transgender girl
Danielle Skidmore, Transgender adult
Reverend S. David Wynn, lead pastor of Agape Metropolitan Community Church in Fort Worth, Texas
Kim Farbo, Texas Association Against Sexual Assault representative and Law Enforcement Training Specialist
Sherri Seagroves, staff recruiter from North Carolina
WHEN: Tuesday March 7, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Texas State Capitol, 1100 Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78701
Rotunda of the Capitol Extension next to hearing room for Senate Bill 6
MORE: Representatives from across Texas opposed to Senate Bill 6 available to talk about how the discriminatory bill will hurt real Texas families and kids.
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Equality Texas is the largest statewide organization working solely to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
The Texas Freedom Network is a nonpartisan, grassroots of religious and community leaders who support religious freedom and individual liberties.
The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. HRC envisions a world where LGBTQ people are embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is a guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, the Legislature and Texas communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all in the Bill of Rights of our Constitution.
The Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) is an organization dedicated to furthering the gender diverse equity in the State of Texas. We work to accomplish this through education and networking in both public and private forums. Through our efforts we strive to halt discrimination through social, legal, legislative and corporate education.