Democrats try to remove anti-gay laws, while Republicans don’t want kids to be trans.
As usual in the Texas Legislature, Republicans outnumber Democrats, and bills reducing freedoms for LGBTQ Texans outnumber those to protect our queer community.
In the battle for making gayness unacceptable again, Rep. Jared Patterson's on the front lines with a bill that would ban all publicly funded schools from including instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity to students through eighth grade.
The fact is Texas doesn't need new laws to pick on queer people. We've got plenty of homophobic stuff on the books, and Democrats are trying to remove a bunch of anti-gay BS from Texas code. Identical bills from Rep. Erin Zwiener, D-Driftwood, and Sen.
For Republicans, trans legislation mostly targets kids. Back for blood from the 87th session is a bill that would redefine child abuse to include helping a child receive a puberty suppression drug, except in the case of an intersex child – one with genetic, hormonal, or genital/gonadal characteristics both male and female.
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