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Houston Democrat joins GOP lawmakers in reviving transgender sports bill FacebookTwitterEmail Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, says his flip-flop on the transgender sports bill is a “consequence” of unrelated HISD legislation that died this week.Wilf Thorne / For The Chronicle Legislation banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ scholastic sports teams was revived in the Texas House on Friday morning, just days after it appeared blocked. On Friday morning the House Public Education Committee reconvened and voted 8-5 to advance the bill to the floor of the House for further conside...

A bill preventing trans student-athletes from competing on teams as their assigned gender found new life in the Texas state House Friday morning when Democrat Rep. Harold Dutton revived the bill seemingly as a retaliatory measure against members of his own party. According to the Texas Tribune, Dutton brought the bill, Senate Bill 29, up for a second vote to move it out of the House Public Education Committee, which Dutton chairs, and to the House floor. The bill, which is similar to other anti-trans bills proposed in more than 30 states, failed to pass out of committee on Tuesday, leaving it...

The Texas House considered a bill that would outlaw abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, often before a woman knows she is pregnant.

The Texas House has approved a bill that would allow handguns to be carried without a permit, marking a win for gun rights activists who have for years pushed the measure at the Legislature but a blow to El Paso Democrats who have been fighting for gun safety measures since the 2019 massacre in their hometown.

Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune / Originally published on May 5, 2021 1:00 pm Mirroring moves by other red-state legislatures across the country, Texas Republicans are attempting to reach into classrooms and limit what public school students are taught about the nation's historical subjugation of people of color. Two bills moving through the Texas Legislature would bar the teaching of critical race theory, an academic discipline that views race as a social construct and examines how racism has shaped legal and social systems. Decrying critical race theory has emerged as a co...