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If You Target Trans Texans for Discrimination, We’ll See You in Court
Just one day before President Trump announced his intention to ban transgender service members from the U.S. military—in a series of tweets the U.S. military itself was unprepared for—21 members of the Texas Senate voted to advance their own anti-transgender agenda.
By Kali Cohn
Lawmakers in Texas Are Returning to the Capitol for More Anti-Trans Discrimination
This post originally appeared on the ACLU National website.
By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Will Have Blood on His Hands if He Signs Two Anti-LGBTQ Bills Before Him
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By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
We Call B.S., Mr. Attorney General
Earlier this week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in a press release his office’s support for a lawsuit that would allow states to deny drivers’ licenses to immigrants who hold federal work permits. In other words, if he can’t do anything about immigrants having the right to a job, at least he can try to stop them from traveling to it.
By Terri Burke, Executive Director, 2008-2020
With North Carolina, the NBA, and the NCAA Caving on Trans Rights, Texas Finds New Momentum for Discrimination
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By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Lawmakers Horse-Trade Away Texans’ Health and Safety
In the backrooms of the Texas Capitol last week, members of the House of Representatives further chipped away Texans’ access to reproductive health care by voting to defund Planned Parenthood. Denying healthcare to thousands of Texans who depend on these services is bad enough, but the outrage shouldn’t end there. Worse still, the deal was struck in a seeming attempt to divide those who care about justice. Lawmakers tried to trade one wrong for another: defund Planned Parenthood or make it impossible for transgender Texans to participate in everyday life by barring them from the public restroom that corresponds to their gender identity.
By Lauryn Farris and Rebecca Marques
And You Thought The Bathroom Bill Was Bad
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.
By Mark Humphries
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