Why is Texas so anti-trans? We have been around since the dawn of time and it has never been a problem until the Republicans politicized us and made us their bogyman, their scapegoat.
Why do they hate us so much?Ken Paxton sues NCAA over transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports
The attorney general is accusing the organization of misleading fans by allowing transgender college athletes in women’s sports.
Texas Tribune
By Berenice Garcia
December 22, 2024Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Sunday he sued the National Collegiate Athletic Association, accusing the organization of misleading college sports fans by allowing transgender women to participate in events marketed as women's competitions.
Paxton said the NCAA violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by deceiving fans who want to support sporting events that only include athletes whose female sex was assigned at birth.
Paxton also accused the NCAA of misleading consumers by not identifying which athletes are transgender, and of “jeopardizing the safety and wellbeing of women” by allowing transgender athletes to participate in its sporting events.
“Radical ‘gender theory’ has no place in college sports,” Paxton said in a news release Sunday.
Paxton wants the court to limit the participation of trans athletes in NCAA competitions taking place in Texas or involving Texas teams, or to stop the organization from labeling events as women's sports if they include transgender women.
120 anti-trans bills have already been filed across the United States before 2025 has even started
The number surpasses the number of bills filed in advance of 2024, a historically hostile year towards trans individuals.
The Advocate
By Erin Reed
December 21, 2024After a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation, 2025 is shaping up to be even more challenging for transgender and queer people across the United States. A legislative tracker maintained by Erin In The Morning and other volunteers has found that nearly 120 anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills have already been filed in states nationwide ahead of the 2025 legislative season. This far surpasses the 80 bills filed by this time in 2023, signaling another historic wave of legal attacks on the ability of transgender people to move, live, and exist freely as themselves in public.
The bulk of the bills so far come from Texas and Missouri, two of the earlier states that release prefilled legislation ahead of the 2025 session. However, states like South Carolina, New Hampshire, Georgia, Wyoming, and Montana all feature multiple anti-LGBTQ+ bills, with more being added every day. Thirteen states in all have seen anti-trans bills filed: Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming.
This year, several state bills aim to strip legal recognition from transgender people entirely. Between 2022 and 2024, ten states passed such legislation or enacted similar policies, with devastating consequences for affected communities. In Kansas, Florida, and Texas, transgender individuals are now unable to update their driver’s licenses, and in some cases, states have begun reverting gender marker changes that were made years or even decades ago. Transgender people who have lived as their legal gender for years may face forced reversion of their identification documents if these new bills are enacted. Similar legislation has already been introduced in Texas, Missouri, South Carolina, and Wyoming.
Why do they hate us so much?
Why do they hate us so much?Not Everyone Can Leave: Survival Advice From Trans Teens in Texas
Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?
Truthout
By Marisol Cortez ,
November 13, 2024“The hostility has always been there,” Paul told me. “But I feel like it truly began to ramp up like 2020.”
A 16-year-old student at a large public high school in a large Texas city, Paul (a pseudonym to protect his safety) is a varsity athlete with aspirations to join the FBI. But in 2020 he was still in middle school. Texas wouldn’t pass its first anti-trans bill — a sports ban on trans youth playing on the team aligning with their gender — for another year. But Paul remembers watching sports bans passing in other states and feeling unsettled, “hearing [rumored] horror stories of kids having to take their pants off and have teachers check them. I wasn’t out yet. But [another family member] was. So it was really scary. I couldn’t at the time tell why it scared me so much. But thinking about it [being] like an invasion of my privacy, even though it wasn’t directly happening to me.”
For Mike — another 16-year-old trans guy who likes cooking, playing bass and hanging out with his friends — his first awareness of something shifting in Texas happened around the same time, also from hearing about political developments in other states. Ron DeSantis’s 2019 inauguration as governor of Florida, which launched anti-trans restrictions on sports and health care, and Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” bill, was a key memory for him, making a big impression on him as a youth living in Texas, another red state: “That’s when I decided, if I’m going to college” — the son of immigrants, he would be the first in his family to go to college — “I need to get out of here. I don’t think it’s safe for me to stay here.”
By Stella M. Chávez
September 23, 2024
Last month, Texas became the largest state to block transgender people from updating the sex listed on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
The policy change, which was not announced in public, took many people by surprise. State officials released some basic information about the decision. But many questions remain unanswered.
The Texas Newsroom filed records requests and interviewed state officials, LGBTQ advocates and legal experts to better understand the potential effects of the new policy.
The change should not hamper the ability of transgender Texans to vote, according to local and state election officials. But it’s still unclear whether they will encounter new problems opening a bank account, updating their health insurance or dealing with other everyday tasks that require an ID. The legality of the policy has also been thrown into question. As of now, however, the change remains in effect unless and until a lawsuit is filed.
Meanwhile, many transgender Texans are caught in legal limbo. In interviews, they said it feels as though the state is creating a list to keep track of them — but to what end?
The answer is simple… POWER! CONTROL!
They crave for power and they do it by demonizing us.
What do Brazil’s Vargas, Poland’s Jaruzelski, Panama’s Noriega, Hungary's Orbán, and Russia’s Putin have in common? The all demonizing of us! And now we can add the Republicans to the list.
They crave for power and they do it by demonizing us.
What do Brazil’s Vargas, Poland’s Jaruzelski, Panama’s Noriega, Hungary's Orbán, and Russia’s Putin have in common? The all demonizing of us! And now we can add the Republicans to the list.
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