All posts tagged "Texas House of Representatives"
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Democrats Nominate 3 Out Black LGBTQ Candidates for Texas House
Last week’s primary runoffs in Texas offered good news for advocates of diversity and the LGBTQ community, with three out LGBTQ Black candidates winning their...
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Republican candidate: “I’m not comfortable with the transgenders”
Shelley Luther, a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives, trans children in classrooms is why she supports "school choice."
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Texas Democrat revives anti-trans sports bill out of spite
Texas State Rep. Harold Sutton Jr. revived a bill to bar trans athletes from competing in sports to retaliate against fellow Democrats.
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Bill targeting transgender student-athletes dies in Texas House
A bill that could have blocked transgender athletes from competing in interscholastic sports died unceremoniously in the Texas House on Friday. The bill, which was...
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Texas lawmakers pass adoption bill and anti-gay bathroom amendment
Texas lawmakers have passed two measures that will allow discrimination against LGBTQ people: a “conscience clause” bill relating to adoption, and an amendment that restricts transgender...
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Texas Lt. Governor threatens to force special session if House doesn’t pass “bathroom bill”
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is threatening to force the Texas legislature to convene for a special summer session if House Speaker Joe Straus doesn’t...
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Texas House passes anti-LGBTQ adoption bill
Texas would become the sixth state to allow child placement agencies to turn away same-sex parents
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Texas “bathroom bill” could cost state more than $3 billion
New bill restricts localities from passing their own ordinances regulating bathroom access
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Texas House Speaker: Bathroom bill “manufactured and unnecessary”
A bill that seeks to restrict which restrooms transgender people in Texas can access seems destined for the scrap heap, if comments from the state’s powerful...
