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Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas A&M University from enforcing drag ban
Thursday’s Draggieland performance can go on as scheduled, according to the ruling.
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Texas doesn’t have to place LGBTQ foster youth in homes that affirm their identities, court rules
A federal judge has blocked a Biden-era rule that said providing foster children with ‘safe and proper care’ required placing them in gender-affirming homes.
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender troop ban, dealing White House another court loss
The judge ruled the ban violates the constitutional rights of transgender troops.
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University of Texas System bans drag shows in campus facilities
The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.
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Paxton says trans Texans can’t use court orders to change sex on driver’s licenses, birth certificates
Per the attorney general’s nonbinding opinion, state agencies should change gender markers on government documents back to a person’s sex assigned at birth.
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Texas House majority signs on to bill restricting use of public-building bathrooms by trans people
House Bill 239, which echoes a bathroom bill that failed in 2017, includes new provisions for shelters and prisons.
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Texas A&M System bans drag shows from its universities
The move potentially sets up a new First Amendment fight between students and university administrators.
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Trans Texans are under attack (again), but advocates aren’t giving in
With another legislative session that could pile on even more anti-trans policies, LBGTQ+ groups grapple with how to protect their communities.
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Counting Hate: At least 61 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents in Texas last year
The LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD, which tracks incidents, warned that threats against the queer community are likely to worsen under the Trump administration.
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Court rejects Texas lawsuit trying to end anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients
Two Texas doctors said a White House rule saying providers can’t withhold gender-affirming care went too far.
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The GOP-controlled Texas Legislature is once again targeting transgender people
GOP lawmakers have already filed nearly 40 anti-trans proposals for debate in the upcoming session.
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After Texas banned puberty blockers and hormones for trans kids, adults lost care, too
As limitations on trans teens increase, doctors have left the state, weakening an already threadbare system for trans adults.
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Texas Democratic Party chair on defensive after blaming losses on support of trans rights
After receiving intense backlash for the comments, Hinojosa has issued an apology.
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Ken Paxton sues Dallas pediatrician over providing hormone treatments to teens
In the first test of Senate Bill 14, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused Dr. May Lau of providing testosterone to at least 21 teens.
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Texas sues Biden administration over requirement to provide LGBTQ+ youth foster placements
Placing LGBTQ+ foster children in more accepting homes would cost Texas too much money and resources, the lawsuit says.
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Transgender Texans now barred from changing sex listed on birth certificates
Advocacy groups accuse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bullying a state agency to make the change.
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Texas’ new drivers license rule may make it tougher for trans people to vote
A leading voter-education group said the state’s rule change will intimidate trans voters, create confusion at polling places.
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Texas bars transgender people from changing the sex on their driver’s licenses
A top Texas Department of Public Safety official outlined the change in an email sent to employees on Tuesday.
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Texas sues Biden again to block federal protections for transgender workers
The Texas Attorney General is following his familiar playbook by taking the case to a federal judge with a record of rulings against the Biden administration’s agenda.
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Federal judge in Texas expands ruling that blocks Biden administration protections of LGBTQ students
The decision in the case brought by the Texas Attorney General preempts any future Title IX regulations that extend federal protections to LGBTQ students.