Lois Kolkhorst

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

Big business and police — two usually important groups to Texas Republicans — have urged the governor to drop it.

Ten hours of committee testimony on the bill, mostly in opposition, did not stop Republicans from taking away transgender people’s rights.

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.

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.

Although the Texas bill is likely to sail through a Senate committee, the hotly contested measure faces a tough road ahead.

The state’s business community largely does not support such legislation, knowing it could cost them millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.