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The Texas Legislature is getting a little queerer courtesy of Lauren Ashley Simmons’ runoff election win in House District 146. Simmons, an openly queer union organizer, ousted Rep. Shawn Thierry, the incumbent who betrayed the LGBTQIA+ community during the 2023 Legislative Session when she voted to ban health care for

Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, announced that he is suing the Department of Education over updates to the Title IX regulations. Title IX is a federal civil rights law designed to protect students in public schools from discrimination.The updates now explicitly include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.

We joined forces with the ACLU of Texas, GLAAD, HRC, and with support from the Human Rights Clinic at UT Law, submitted a Joint Allegation Letter to 17 independent experts, working groups, and special rapporteurs at the UN about the human rights crisis facing LGBTQIA+ Texans. The Joint Allegation Letter

The ACLU of Texas, ACLU national, Lambda Legal, Transgender Law Center, along with Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP, and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed a lawsuit challenging S.B. 14, which would deny medically necessary health care to trans youth. We,the All in for Equality Coalition, unequivocally support the

SB 12, the Drag Ban, has gone through a lot of changes recently. After language explicitly mentioning drag was removed from the bill, we’d like to explain why this bill is still bad for Texas. We want to be clear, just because the House version doesn’t specifically mention drag, this