The lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the Houston Federation of Teachers, seeks an injunction and claims HISD leaders violated state law by not consulting districtwide and campus-level decision-making committees before adopting new evaluation criteria.
A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates. A group of drag performance groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, filed a suit against…
A Texas law that prevents health care providers from administering gender-affirming care to transgender minors will take effect as planned this week after the state attorney general’s office filed to appeal a judge’s temporary injunction. Texas District Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel on Friday temporarily halted the state’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, writing in a…
LGBTQ+ groups and drag performers suing the state argued Monday that Senate Bill 12 violates constitutionally-protected rights. The new law is set to go into effect on Friday unless a federal judge blocks it.