Kansas appears unlikely to join the growing number of states banning transgender athletes female sports in schools and colleges, and Tom Witt is one of the main figures behind that effort.
He's even let his health slide. In 2017, he ignored growing fatigue to successfully lobby against requiring transgender students to use facilities associated with their genders assigned at birth — then had a heart attack and bypass surgery.
But Witt is sometimes profane and often pugnacious, even with friends. As for lawmakers, he said, party doesn't matter: “If they vote against LGBT rights, I’m going to go after them." "We're going to make sure that Texas and all of the states of the United States are a place that you can grow up and be your full self, and be supported and safe." Rebecca Marques, director of Human Rights Campaign in Texas, says to the state's transgender students. HRC and other groups are speaking out against a bill headed to the desk of Gov.
“You know, it’s kind of like he’s a Marine Corps drill sergeant when he is committed to the advocacy for his ideology,” Haley said. “It’s like, ‘Everybody line up. This is the way it’s going to go.’” But Witt sees this year's proposals triggering bullying and suicides. He pointed out a scar on his left cheek and said it's from being attacked and cut with a knife in a high school bathroom in the 1970s.
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