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- TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
- NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
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They were among several bills the Legislature nsired that would brg major chang to the liv of gay and transgenr Texans.
NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
But the lower chamber didn’t brg the amend legislatn up for nsiratn, killg the Senate’s third attempt at phg what crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn.
Crics say the provisns about LGBTQ lsons — patterned on ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law om Florida — nta vague language that uld stifle even rmal discsn about LGBTQ people, such as teachers discsg their same-sex spo. The Republin Party of Texas, which oppos any efforts to validate transgenr inti and claims that homosexualy is “an abnormal liftyle choice, ” also nsirs banng the “teachg, exposure, and/or discsn of sexual matters (mechanics, feelgs, orientatn, or ‘genr inty’ issu)” to be a legislative prry.
One bill signalg a shift opn toward the LGBTQ muny was Hoe Bill 2055, which would have repealed the state law crimalizg gay sex. Venton Jon, a Dallas Democrat who is the first Black, gay and openly HIV-posive lawmaker to serve at the Capol. In the platform voted on by legat at the party's biennial nventn, one sectn — lled ‘Homosexualy and Genr Issu' — stat "homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice.