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SB6 gets all the media attention, but it’s only the tip of the spear in Texas lawmakers’ sustained campaign to roll back LGBT equality.SB6 is a terrible bill. A spiteful, unnecessary, unenforceable piece of legislation the sole intent of which is to force transgender Texans to disappear from public spaces and public life. A similar bill cost North Carolina NCAA Tournament venues and $3.76 billion in lost business, and Texas should not expect to fare any better. The problem SB6 is meant to solve simply does not exist, but the solution it proposes would harm transgender Texans, Texas’s economy and Texas’s reputation as a warm and welcoming state.

They used the bathroom at a ball game and got arrested. The community asked why. Turns out they’d been spied on by a government camera. But the Border Patrol told a different story.

In Texas, adulthood usually means 18. Seventeen year olds cannot vote, serve in the military, or buy lottery tickets. There is an exception, though: kids are automatically charged, jailed, and imprisoned as adults the day they turn 17, even for the most minor, nonviolent offenses.

A beginner drag queen discovers that in South Texas, queer history and family history can be one and the same

Step 1: Find out who represents you

Ten years ago, Willacy County officials made a catastrophic mistake. And they’re about to make it again.

Facebook is who I am. Really. Why do I have all the selfies? Well, I don’t have a partner, someone to always tell me, “You’re beautiful.” Selfies build up my self-esteem. I have yet to figure out my interaction with men. When they first meet me they love that I’m independent and can hold it down. They work really hard to get me. But once they have me they feel … what’s the word?...emasculated.

Fred Korematsu would have turned 98 today. The victim of another wrongheaded and un-American executive order that betrayed our nation’s ideals, Korematsu was locked up in an internment camp in Topaz, Utah simply for being of Japanese descent.

Dear Representative Biedermann,