Greg Abbott

“No child should be subjected to these types of businesses,” he said about his bill that would require anti-trans job discrimination.

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The day after Governor Greg Abbott’s order to investigate families with transgender kids, he was assigned the very first case.

“I can’t imagine a situation where I would attempt to undo one of their marriages. So what makes them think that they are fit to pronounce upon mine?”

The boy was left “shaking and distressed” by the interrogation.

The state’s capital city is without water for the foreseeable future because the state’s Republicans were too busy fighting the culture wars.

Abbott’s order to investigate trans-supportive families for “child abuse” was so bad that state employees were told never to discuss it in writing.

“I want them to be able to defend themselves against real threats and kick some ass out there and maybe intervene when a school shooter comes.”

Gov. Greg Abbott wouldn’t even say that the state should decriminalize homosexuality.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s extreme agenda from abortion bounties to investigating the parents of transgender kids.

The senator from Texas said that the Supreme Court “ignored two centuries of our nation’s history” when it legalized marriage equality.

Ken Paxton tried, yet again, to score political points by attacking queer kids. The judge told him to mind his own damned business.

“These investigations into loving and affirming families shouldn’t be happening in the first place.”

A lawsuit demands the state stop persecuting supportive parents with false allegations and costly investigations.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have been fooled by a fake picture of a drag queen from the internet.

“You know it was one of your sisters who killed those kids,” one of the alleged attackers said.

At least 19 children and three adults were killed during an elementary school mass shooting yesterday. The state’s Republican governor plans on attending an NRA convention this weekend.

Gov. Greg Abbott wanted trans kids taken away from their supportive parents, but the court said he doesn’t have to power to do that.

“These parents are the most loving parents you’ll find anywhere.”