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For those of you who are not aware, a piece of extremely transphobic legislation passed the Texas house yesterday, #HB25. Over on @StepUp4Trans I'm going to discuss the exact nature of what happened and its implications, but here I want to get a bit more personal. 🧵
I want to talk about why this happened. Because I listened to 6+ hours of legislative proceedings yesterday of people who hate trans kids, especially trans girls, and I am appalled.
This happened because it was allowed to happen. This happened because there won't be consequences.
This happened because it was allowed to happen. This happened because there won't be consequences.
The thing that struck me most about the proceedings was that even though there were impassioned speeches by trans kids and their allies, even though there were statistically backed, logical arguments against the bill, it didn't matter. The bill passed.
Representative Swanson is now laying out HB 25 in the House. You can watch live or follow along as we'll tweet the full hearing. tlchouse.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…
Please note: bill supporters will only refer to transgender girls as "biological males" throughout this hearing because they want to erase the humanity of and recognition of trans people as real, full, and equal human beings.
Swanson speaks about 332,000 girls in UIL sports in Texas as "not a small number" but she somehow believes that a handful of transgender girls — none she can cite in Texas — participating in sports would destroy athletics for those 332k.
This morning, the Calendars Committee called roll and voted to move HB 25, a bill targeting transgender children, in less than one minute, with zero discussion, zero deliberation.
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More than 5x as many people showed up in opposition than in favor during the committee hearing last week. Despite irrefutable evidence that #HB25 will harm innocent children and overwhelming opposition to it the committee voted to move it to the full House floor.
This is unconscionable.
