Press Releases

This morning the Texas Senate voted to pass HB229, which would enforce strict definitions of gender limited by binary definitions of sex.

Today House Bill 1738 passed a major landmark in the Texas House. House Bill 1738 would update Texas Law to follow 2003 US Supreme Court precedent in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned the Texas law banning private, same-sex relationships.

Equality Texas released the Campus Climate Report, examining the impact of Texas’ College DEI ban on students and Faculty.

Today Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion stating that court orders from state judges instructing state agencies to update individual’s gender markers are invalid. Paxton also instructed state agencies to undo any updates to ID documents based on such court orders.

While the campaign against trans and queer people in the state of Texas and across the country has been largely premised on the notion that being trans is a “new” phenomenon, Equality Texas—the largest LGBTQIA+ advocacy group in the state of Texas—launched a timeline that explores the history of LGBTQIA+