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Equality Texas
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Equality Texas
@EqualityTexas
We work to secure full equality for LGBTQIA+ Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. 🤠🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
- Equality Texas, the largest 501(c)(4) nonpartisan statewide political advocacy organization working for the elimination of discrimination against the LGTBQ+ community, today endorses Democratic candidate for governor, @BetoORourke.
- Thank you for showing support for trans youth and their right to access health care. We are receiving donations from across the US today! Donate here: secure.everyaction.com/eKwA--rdJ0iUSX… And donate to @TransTexas, too: secure.everyaction.com/Aluze8fLdEmlU5…
- This Friday, March 11th, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) will meet and allow public comment. The Governor's order and CPS investigations are on the agenda. You can help trans kids in Texas at this hearing! 🧵 #ProtectTransKids #SupportIsNotAbuse
- It's midnight. The House is adjourned! #SB29 did NOT make it through the #TXlege. Thank you to all of our allies who helped #ProtectTransKids and make this possible.
- It's all hands on deck tomorrow! Join us at the Statehouse, testify against bathroom bills. Let's do this: bit.ly/2ueY8cV #TXLege
- Equality Texans & partners @TransTexas, @HRC, @ACLUTx, @LambdaLegal & @TFN are at the Capitol to make sure representatives know trans kids are loved, supported, & should be protected from anti-trans bills & the trauma of having their humanity debated #txlege #protecttranskids
- "Klick lies, kids die" chanted by protesters when testimony on HB 1686 was cut short at midnight
00:00 - Replying to @EqualityTexasStudents on a tour to the Capitol from Mesquite High School asked for a photo. Cisgender students support their transgender friends and classmates. Please recognize this, #TXlege.
- 🗣️Long live Texas drag🎉VICTORY: A federal judge has declared Texas’ drag ban unconstitutional. LGBTQIA+ Texans, venue owners, performers, and our allies all came together to uphold free expression in our state — and we won. This work isn’t done but for now we celebrate. Long live Texas drag!
- BREAKING: Victory! 🎉 Today a judge found that #SB14—the law barring trans youth from accessing care—is likely illegal and has granted a temporary injunction. 👉 This means the law will NOT go into effect on Sept 1! #TXLege #LGBTQIA #LGBTQRights #TransTexas #LoeVTexas #EQTX
00:00 - Our hearts are heavy mourning the loss of Nex Benedict who was laid to rest one week ago. Nex was a 16-year-old nonbinary high school student of Choctaw ancestry in Oklahoma who enjoyed drawing, reading, and playing Minecraft.
