Dan Patrick

New Texas Republican House Speaker says transgender bathroom access is not a ‘real issue’

The incoming Texas House Speaker has a long list of "to dos" -- but an anti-transgender bathroom bill isn't one of them.

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GOP reboots for another round of anti-trans bathroom bills in TX

Texas lawmakers are poised to try again to fight against transgender restroom use and same-sex marriage.

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This Republican saved trans rights in Texas. Now he’s retiring & the far right is rejoicing.

Who will replace him? Conservatives are lining up to take his spot and that means bad news for trans people.

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Texas bathroom bill dies after legislature adjourns without action

Transgender Texans can breathe a little easier today.

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After sustained national outcry, Texas’ bathroom bill is likely dead

Still, proponents of the law haven't given up hope.

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Texas Senate moving fast to push through anti-transgender ‘bathroom bill’

Business leaders and corporations, such as Apple, IBM, and the NFL, have asked Republican lawmakers to abandon their plan of passing a bill restricting the rights of trans people.

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Texas Speaker: ‘I don’t want a suicide on my hands’ over bathroom bill

"I'm disgusted by all this," said Joe Straus, the Republican Speaker.

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Texas’s ‘bathroom bill’ causes Republican stand-off

Texas Republicans are fighting each other over an anti-transgender "bathroom bill."

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Wolves in the hen house: Look who Texas recruited to promote its bathroom bill

The Lt. Governor insists that asking the Family Research Council to promote a bill to limit bathroom access to the gender on one's birth certificate is not transphobia.

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Was this Texas lawmaker caught on tape calling a transgender man a ‘pervert’?

Judge for yourself. Advocates say they hear Republican State Sen. Joan Huffman tell a clinical psychologist, "You're the pervert."

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