The same scoundrels who blew $18 million in taxpayer money to wrest majority rule from voters and played dirty and deceptive to crush majority will on abortion rights plan to pass a slew of baseless school bills on the sly.
New year, new Lege. On Tuesday (Jan. 12) the
Texas Legislature will convene for the
87th legislative session. And while the
how of a legislature conducting its business during a pandemic continues to be worked out, we have an early idea of the
what on the Lege s rainbow agenda.
Bad bills, unsurprisingly, are already being filed (the deadline is March 12). Among them is
House Bill 68 from state Rep.
Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands), which, if passed, would classify any gender affirming surgeries and hormone therapy for trans and gender nonconforming kids as child abuse under the
Texas Family Code. In October 2019, at the height of the right wing s obsessive meddling in the custody battle of Luna Younger, a young trans girl from North Texas, Toth threatened to file such a bill, along with state Rep.