Despite Texas' unwelcome distinction as the state with the most
anti-LGBTQIA bills filed this year, the rights of queer and trans Texans emerged relatively unscathed by the 87th Texas Legislature.
In a statehouse whose GOP leadership has situated itself in previous sessions at the vanguard of the evangelical right's moral panic over trans and nonbinary people, a win for LGBTQIA rights was among the few outright highlights for progressives under the pink dome. It's all the more remarkable considering the huge national wave of anti-LGBTQIA legislation, the right's most aggressive pushback in at least a decade.
Dependable theocrat Sen.
Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, carried the anti-trans student-