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On Monday, nonprofit, nonpartisan civil rights and racial justice organizations, led by the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs’ motions for preliminary injunction in League of United
The University of North Texas (UNT) system confirmed that it has lifted its “pause” on drag performances across its campuses, in response to a demand letter from civil liberties organizations informing the school that it was violating its students’ First Amendment rights.
The ACLU of Texas, Transgender Law Center, and Baker McKenzie filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging key aspects of Senate Bill 12 on behalf of the Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT), a teacher, an individual student, and her parent.
The Texas House passed House Bill 7, which severely limits access to medication abortion by restricting the manufacture, prescription, and distribution of abortion-inducing drugs in Texas and out-of-state.
The Texas House passed Senate Bill 8, which bans transgender and intersex people from accessing restrooms and other multi-user facilities (e.g. domestic violence shelters, jails, prisons) that align with their gender identity in government-owned buildings.
Civil rights organizations sent a letter to public school superintendents across Texas, warning school districts not to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.