President Joe Biden challenges "wrong and un-American" Texas bill that "attacks sacred right to vote": an "assault on democracy" targeting people of color.
First published on Thu 27 May 2021 08.19 EDT
On Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers in the Texas house of representatives successfully stalled a transphobic bill from going to a vote until it hit its “pass-or-die” deadline and expired.
Senate Bill 29, which had already passed the Texas senate, would have forced all student athletes in the state to compete according to their sex assigned at birth.
The failed legislation was one of at least 35 such bills aimed at restricting trans students’ participation in school athletics mounted by Republican
lawmakers in 2021.
In 2019, there were only two.
SB 29 is also part of a broader legislative assault on queer and trans people nationwide by Republicans and conservatives. The Human Rights Campaign has already declared 2021 to be “the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history”, with 17 bills targeting trans people’s access to gender-affirming medical care, trans students’ ability to participate in school athletics, a
The exercise, which was eventually scrapped, was planned as the Trump administration warned of a migrant caravan “invasion” that threatened the border.
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