Watch: The Texas House has begun debating a proposed ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender kids.
, are pursuing bills they believe can create a national model for infusing Christianity into the public sphere.Texas Republicans have filed dozens of bills affecting LGBTQ people. Here’s what they’d do.The Senate has already passed a version of the bill and a majority of Texas House members support the legislation. If the bill becomes law, Texas will joinin restricting transition-related care for minors.
The looming prospect of losing this care has spurred some families with trans kids to start planning for ways to get treatments outside of the state or flee Texas entirely. But traveling or moving is cost prohibitive for some families. Many parents of trans kids have also testified about having been in Texas for generations and not wanting to uproot themselves from the communities that they love., D-Clint, successfully cut short the debate on SB 14 with a parliamentary maneuver.
As lawmakers exited following that committee vote, the Rev. Mary Street Wilson shouted, “Shame on you!” Wilson was one of several faith leaders present at the Capitol on Tuesday to protest SB 14 as part of Texas Freedom Network’s“Whenever this bill does pass, what’s going to happen to them the next day? Absolutely nothing,” she later said to The Texas Tribune. “What’s going to happen to these families? Their world comes apart. … It makes me absolutely furious.”
On Thursday, a coalition of advocacy groups had raised a call to action to shut down SB 14 and other bills in a“Living through history is not something we’ve asked for, but these are the cards that we have been dealt,” Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, said Thursday. “Will we roll over when democracy is threatened, or will we rise up and claim our stake in the world where we fight for our right to life, liberty and happiness? For us, the choice is clear. We will continue to fight.
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