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Senate Bill 12 gets FINAL PASSAGE in the Texas Senate by vote of 20-11. It would criminalize drag shows or any other performances deemed overtly sexual if they're in front of or may be in front of minors.

Background: dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #TXLege #SB12 #LGBT #LGBTQ #dragqueen
Senate Bill 1601, which would bar public money from libraries that host #drag shows, is up for final passage in the Texas Senate.

@SenRoyceWest, the only Democrat who voted for it yesterday, is asking Qs of the author. #txlege #SB1601
@SenRoyceWest West asks one question: Would the drag queen library bill apply to men wearing kilts in libraries?

@SenBryanHughes says no.

West asks no further questions. #txlege #SB1601
@SenRoyceWest @SenBryanHughes Hughes says the bill was brought to counter Drag Story Hours. He reads from the website, which says the events "are to capture the imagination. and play of gender fluidity of childhood."

#txlege #SB1601
@SenRoyceWest @SenBryanHughes #SB1601, to ban public funds from libraries that host drag story hours, gets final passage in Senate by a vote of 19-10 w/ 2 present but not voting.

We will have the breakdowns on both drag bills soon. Both now head to House. dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege #dragqueenstoryhour
@SenRoyceWest @SenBryanHughes Here is Lt. Gov. @DanPatrick's statement on the passage of the drag bill #SB12.

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Apr 6
🧵1/ County jails have A/C. Animal shelters too.

But Texas doesn't require its prisons to have climate control.

In the past, the state hasn't kept indoor heat logs.

We @dallasnews obtained new data that exposes conditions behind bars.
dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege #FOIA
The News obtained the indoor temperature logs at all Texas prisons, which the state only recently required them to begin keeping, through a public info request and analyzed them.

The data show indoor temperatures in 15 state-run lockups exceeded 100 degrees last summer. #txlege A heat map shows the thirte...
3/ The temperature topped 99.4 degrees where inmates are housed inside the state-run jail in Dallas County, the data show.

The Stevenson Unit near Cuero was the hottest; temperatures there exceeded 95 degrees two out of three days last summer. dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege A line graph shows the temp...
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Apr 4
HAPPENING NOW: Senate takes up debate on bill to restrict, and at times criminalize, drag shows in Texas.

Background: dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege #LGBTQ #LGBT #SB12
Bill author @SenBryanHughes says his legislation is just about protecting children from "sexually explicit performances."

But, his bill would also make it a crime for a man presenting as a woman (and vice versa) to perform a "prurient" event "on public property."

#txlege #SB12
@SenBryanHughes Drag performers and their supporters have come to watch this debate. They are in the gallery.

#txlege #SB12
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Apr 4
Senate Bill 14, the ban on medical treatments for transgender minors, is up for final passage in the Texas Senate.

Background here: dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege #LGBT #LGBTQ
Bill author @DonnaCampbellTX repeats her opening statement for this bill: "Children who are on puberty blockers and cross sex hormones need more counseling in love. They don't need blades and drugs."

#txlege #SB14 #LGBTQ #LGBTQ #trans #transgender
@DonnaCampbellTX Sen. @Menendez4Texas is speaking on the gender-affirming care ban bill now:

"I believe Senator Campbell when she says she wants to protect children but I don't think she realizes the potential harm the very real harm" of the bill.

#txlege #SB14 #trans #transgender #LGBTQ
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Apr 3
HAPPENING NOW: The Texas Senate is debating #SB14, which would ban certain medical treatments for transgender minors.

Last week it was amended to exempt current patients from the ban. Looks now that @DonnaCampbellTX is stripping that amendment. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…

#txlege
@DonnaCampbellTX "The amendment was not discussed in committee, and there were so many questions that have been brought up since the amendment was put on that, out of respect for the body, we're going to just take it down," Campbell says.

@Menendez4Texas is balking at this change. #txlege #SB14
@DonnaCampbellTX @Menendez4Texas Menendez points out that no senators objected to amending this bill that week to exempt transgender minors currently receiving care from the ban.

Campbell said "so many questions" had been raised since she offered the amendment. "It was a surprise amendment to the body." #txlege
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Mar 16
🧵Today a committee in the Texas Senate will take up bills to ban gender-affirming care for minors. This is the first time they'll debate this legislation this year.

I've been covering transgender youth in Texas for years. Here's some of what I've learned.
#txlege #LGBT #LGBTQ
2/ In 2017, the focus in Texas was on the "bathroom bill." Parents of trans kids mobilized to fight it.

"You don’t know my kid. You don't know what he's gone through just to be himself," one Dallas mom told me at the time.
dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege #LGBT #LGBTQ
3/ The bathroom bill failed, and 2019 was a bit quieter on the legislative front when it came to transgender legislation.

In 2021, state legislators passed a law requiring high school athletes to play sports according to their sex at birth. dallasnews.com/news/politics/… #txlege
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Mar 14
Texas just filed its appellate brief in the case it's fighting against parents of transgender kids.

Gov't reiterates argument there hasn't been "any particular harm suffered" by families investigated for child abuse bc kids haven't been removed.

documentcloud.org/documents/2370… #txlege
The state of Texas' brief also argues two families with transgender kids no longer have standing to sue bc their investigations have been closed and with no finding of child abuse.

Background: dallasnews.com/news/public-he… #txlege #LGBT #LGBTQ
Also Texas AG @KenPaxtonTX cites recent @nytimes stories about transgender youth to argue that puberty blockers and hormone therapy may be harmful.

A group of NYT contributors and LGBT advocates recently criticized the paper's transgender coverage npr.org/2023/02/15/115… #txlege
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