A host of new bills affecting the LGBTQ+ community are set to take effect Friday in Texas, after being major agenda items for lawmakers.
A host of new bills affecting the LGBTQ+ community are set to take effect on Friday, after being major agenda items for lawmakers of the 88th Texas Legislature.SB 15, or the Save Women's Sports Act, would require college athletes to compete on teams that align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
SB 12 aims to ban drag shows or any performance that can be perceived as sexual in nature when minors are present. The most controversial new law is SB 14, which would prevent patients under 18 from seeking hormones, surgeries and puberty blockers. "It's kind of like a doorway they go through to targeting adults as well under the guise of protecting kids from doing something they might potentially regret," Teal Heidenreiter, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, said.
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