Lois Kolkhorst

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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Texas Senate passes bathroom bill despite overwhelming police opposition

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

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Despite hours of testimony against the Texas bathroom bill, it passes

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

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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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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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Big hurdles face Texas’ bathroom bill ahead of first vote

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

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Texas introduces anti-transgender bathroom bill with quote from MLK, Jr.

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

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