Sb 1646 News Today

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 rights moral panic over trans and nonbinary people, a win for LGBTQIA rights was among the few outright highlights for progressives under the pink dome. Its all the more remarkable consider...

The measure, Senate Bill 29, faced a midnight deadline to pass the lower chamber,...

HOUSTON – A 10-year-old Houston girl traveled to Austin this week to tell the Senate committee on state affairs why she believes a proposed bill should be left off the Texas law books. “You shouldn’t be passing these bills because it’s not helping anybody,” said Maya Stanton, a transgender girl. SB 1646 would make it against the law for parents to allow their children to medically transition. It not only would make surgical procedures a crime, but also all medical interventions. “If...