ABBOTT UNLIKELY TO REVIVE ‘BATHROOM BILL’ FOR NOW

  

Gov. Greg Abbott says he revived a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people even though he was told it would never get a vote in the state House

Abbott also signaled Wednesday that the issue was dead for the foreseeable future.

A proposal requiring transgender Texans to use public restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates fizzled Tuesday night, when lawmakers quit a day early a month-long special legislative session Abbott convened.

Abbott blamed moderate Republican House Speaker Joe Straus. But he also admitted that Straus told him even before the special session that he would not bring the bill to the floor of his chamber.

Abbott also suggested the issue will never pass as long as Straus is speaker.

 

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  1. I watch out for my children. But, just in case, and in the event, one of these idiots ever touch my wife or children, the idiot will need a stretcher if lucky and a hearse if not so lucky.

    1. Transgendered folk are far less a threat to your children than some of our politicians are.

  2. The issue will never pass, even if it is ever clearly presented to the public. Like so: the bill requires nothing of transgendered folks, but DOES require certain institutions, such as public schools, to make and enforce policy for their bathrooms that designates them for use by birth-certificate gender only. Nothing in the bill sets criminal or civil law to punish anyone caught in the wrong bathroom — it just punishes those institutions that have been investigated and found in violation by the state’s attorney’s office after receiving a complaint against said institution.

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