Removal of the LGBTQ youth resource webpage appeared to be strictly political the Houston Chronicle reported
“If Texas’s scheme is permissible, no constitutional right is safe from state-sanctioned sabotage of this kind”
The order granting isn’t permanent- the court will now decide whether to grant Texas’s request for longer-term
"Trans children participating in sports is not a national emergency or a Texas emergency; these attacks on trans kids certainly are"
Depriving citizens by direct state action would be flagrantly unconstitutional, Texas contrived an unprecedented & transparent scheme instead
The 16-year-old junior was denied access by a teacher to female restrooms and locker rooms and told she was not "actually a girl."
"Under the guise of protecting children- Texas legislators are directly harming thousands of transgender & nonbinary youth"
The Texas Legislature has deputized the State's citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors
SB 8 should alarm the LGBTQ community as we also find ourselves the targets of religious and right-wing ideologues
Democrat lawmakers said they plan return but they will not return to the Texas Capitol to attend any future special sessions called by Abbott