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It also opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity," and supports "Reintegrative Therapy" to eliminate "unwanted same-sex attraction."

The Republican Party of Texas has been engulfed in controversy over its stance on LGBTQ+ issues, including excluding Log Cabin Republicans of Texas — an organization that works “to make the Republican Party more inclusive, particularly on LGBT issues” — from the convention.

The Republican Party of Texas adopted a platform that includes explicitly anti-LGBTQ ideology at its biennial convention on Saturday.

At an event of the group of “GLBT” conservatives in Houston, speakers studiously avoided discussion of their party’s anti-trans policies.