Et tu, Dutton? Days after the anti-trans student athlete bill
Senate Bill 29 failed to pass out of the
Texas House Public Education Committee on Tuesday, May 4, committee Chair Rep.
Harold Dutton, D-Houston (yes, a Dem), moved to reconsider SB 29 on Friday, May 7, for no apparent reason other than personal spite, after an unrelated bill by Dutton was killed on the House floor the night before. Dutton admitted as much to the committee Friday morning, describing his move as a consequence because the bill that was killed last night affected far more children than [SB 29] ever will. Chilling. The committee then voted 8-5 in favor of the bill. For a lawmaker to treat transgender and nonbinary kids rights – and safety – so coolly, so cruelly, so cavalierly is shameful. Bills like SB 29 carry life-and-death implications for trans and nonbinary kids should they pass, and even if they aren t signed into law, the anti-LGBTQIA rhetoric created by them alone is still damaging. The
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Et tu, Dutton? Days after the anti-trans student athlete bill
Senate Bill 29 failed to pass out of the
Texas House Public Education Committee on Tuesday, May 4, committee Chair Rep.
Harold Dutton, D-Houston (yes, a Dem), moved to reconsider SB 29 on Friday, May 7, for no apparent reason other than personal spite, after an unrelated bill by Dutton was killed on the House floor the night before. Dutton admitted as much to the committee Friday morning, describing his move as a consequence because the bill that was killed last night affected far more children than [SB 29] ever will. Chilling. The committee then voted 8-5 in favor of the bill. For a lawmaker to treat transgender and nonbinary kids rights – and safety – so coolly, so cruelly, so cavalierly is shameful. Bills like SB 29 carry life-and-death implications for trans and nonbinary kids should they pass, and even if they aren t signed into law, the anti-LGBTQIA rhetoric created by them alone is still damaging. The
Texas Health Action expands access to virtual HIV prevention, HIV care and gender affirming care in rural areas
Texas residents will have access to free virtual services through TeleKind with optional at-home testing and prescription delivery
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AUSTIN, Texas, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Texas Health Action (THA) is the first non-profit organization in the country to launch a statewide telehealth service that provides access to HIV prevention & care and gender affirming care at little to no cost to the patient. TeleKind, the organization s new program, allows any Texas resident 18 years and older to access comprehensive sexual health services regardless of gender identity, gender expression, race, creed, sexual orientation, immigration status, or ability to pay.
Austin’s largest sexual healthcare center expands with new Kind Clinic Kind and compassionate care for all is the objective.
Courtesy of Kind Clinic In the light of the various anti-LGBTQ bills making their way through the Texas Legislature this session and lawmakers’ attempts to deny young transgender people essential healthcare treatments and other rights, one growing Austin health nonprofit is taking a kinder and more inclusive approach.
Texas Health Action, a nonprofit that offers access to quality health services for all in a safe and supportive environment, has outgrown its Central Austin clinic location after five years of providing sexual health services to Austinites, and has opened a spacious new Kind Clinic.
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