Current Events > Texas GOP holds session to address floods, files anti-trans bill instead.

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Because that's the real problem, right?
>_>

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/texas-gop-holds-special-session-to-address-floods-files-an-anti-trans-bathroom-bill-instead/

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has called a special legislative session to address the deadly floods that have left 134 people dead and 101 others missing. However, in preparation for the session, state GOP lawmakers have filed 82 measures, none of which address the flooding. Instead, they seek to ban transgender women from using womens facilities (and Abbott personally supports the idea).

In Abbotts proclamation for the special session, he laid out 18 priorities. The first four addressed the need for improved emergency warning, communication, and aid systems. The other priorities included further restricting abortions and election access, gerrymandering the state electoral map to favor Republicans, and legislation protecting womens privacy in sex-segregated spaces.

The state constitution says legislators can only file bills related to the governors priorities, but Republican legislators havent filed any bills related to the deadly floods, KXAN reported.

Instead, Republican state Rep. Valoree Swanson filed H.B. 32, which would require people only to use facilities in public schools, state universities, government-owned buildings, jails, and family violence shelters that match the biological sex assigned on their original birth certificate. Texas recently changed its laws to forbid transgender people from changing the gender markers on their birth certificates and drivers licenses.

Anyone who allows the proposed law to be violated could be subject to civil fines from $5,000 to $25,000, as well as additional penalties. Swanson filed a similar bill during the previous legislative session, but it failed to pass after missing several legislative deadlines, Chron reported.

Three other special session bills, H.B. 37, 65, and 70, would punish any person or internet service provider who aids or abets the distribution of abortion medication.

H.B. 38, introduced by Democratic state Rep. Jessica Gonzalez (who is also chair of the Texas House LGBTQ Ca ucus), would prohibit workplace, housing, and public accommodations discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, but theres no way itll pass the states Republican-majority legislative chambers. Its also unclear how the bill relates to Abbotts list of priorities.

I am proud to have filed H.B. 38 in preparation for the upcoming special session of our legislature, Gonzlez wrote in a statement on Tuesday. H.B. 38 is a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill that would codify equal protection for the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

During the last legislative session, Texas Republicans filed 88 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, four of which became law, including a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in public schools and one mandating peoples genders be legally determined by their reproductive organs. The Texas House voted to repeal the states anti-sodomy law, but Republicans prevented the repeal from getting a vote in the state Senate.

I mean what else would they do, it's not like Texas voters hold them accountable.

as one does in texas.

Not allowing transgenders into victim shelters by law is just unforgivably vile

It's pure sadism

*after more than 100 people tragically die, and many more are displaced/unhomed, Texans are like* "hey, how do we further marginalize one of the most vulnerable group of people out there?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4d749490.jpg

Friendly reminder that when Biden was president he offered Texas I believe $10,000,000 to help with warning systems, but Republicans declined it, saying they didn't need nor want Bidens "corrupt money".

All they care about is being cruel bastards.

They don't care if your lives are lost as a result of weather, some natural disaster or guns. They care more about who's trans or not. And that applies to the entire party, their voters and supporters.

It's why I call that state Texass. It's literally the ass of the US.

(Keep in mind, I'm mostly railing on the government and their supporters; I know there are a lot of decent people in the state, and this doesn't apply to them.)

Are there even as many transgender people in Texas as the number of children killed in the floods?

I hate this shit hole state.

They'd care a little more if the flood had wiped out a lot of rich people, and only because they need them to grift money from.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Are there even as many transgender people in Texas as the number of children killed in the floods?

Probably not. And most of them likely live in cities like Dallas and Austin, away from like 75% of these peckerwoods. Such a weird, unfounded level of concern.

yeah, that's what texas is.

Never been more happy not to live in Texas

First rule of politics, never let a good crisis go to waste.

Anything I really want to say about these people would be instantly marked and moderated.

misterbum posted...

Anything I really want to say about these people would be instantly marked and moderated.

I ain't marking shit.

Of fucking course they are.

I'm a Texan trans woman and managed to get a female drivers license just a few months ago, so they clearly don't actually check your records too well at least. I think it's because my first drivers license was female, my passport is also female, and I was born in another state and never needed to show my birth certificate.

boxoto posted...

*after more than 100 people tragically die, and many more are displaced/unhomed, Texans are like* "hey, how do we further marginalize one of the most vulnerable group of people out there?

Gotta make sure theyre more vulnerable than flood victims.

I mean ive seen them blame democrats with a weather dominator, how long till they start blaming transgender people with a weather dominator....

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/97eb5de2.jpg

Well they have their priorities at least.

Well, of course they did. Didn't you know that transgender people control the rain machines and are trying to flood Texas?!

/s obviously. Fuck Texas.

Texans are the most submissive people in the US

HylianFox posted...

that match the biological sex assigned on their original birth certificate.

So like what happens if there was say a clerical error. <_<

uwnim posted...

So like what happens if there was say a clerical error. <_<

Has anything they've ever done about anything indicated that they give a shit about collateral damage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J1bE5THXRE

Zergrush80 posted...

I mean ive seen them blame democrats with a weather dominator, how long till they start blaming transgender people with a weather dominator....

Doppler Radar turning the rain WOKE!

I'm so glad I didn't move to this state when I was considering it (pre Trump first term), my family tried telling me the trans hate was overblown, fuck that state

Yeah Texas is a lost cause.

Zergrush80 posted...

I mean ive seen them blame democrats with a weather dominator, how long till they start blaming transgender people with a weather dominator....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnHP216fnBQ

To think I remember seeing the notion Texas might become blue sometime during the 2022-2023 years.

They'll change their tune when it's their families affected.

hivebent4life posted...

I'm a Texan trans woman and managed to get a female drivers license just a few months ago, so they clearly don't actually check your records too well at least. I think it's because my first drivers license was female, my passport is also female, and I was born in another state and never needed to show my birth certificate.

Curious, what is life like living there? Why Texas?

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As of 2024, their population was 31.29 million. Those 4.8 million is but a drop in the bucket. The majority of Texans are what the GOP represent.

Strider102 posted...

Friendly reminder that when Biden was president he offered Texas I believe $10,000,000 to help with warning systems, but Republicans declined it, saying they didn't need nor want Bidens "corrupt money".

All they care about is being cruel bastards.

They don't care if your lives are lost as a result of weather, some natural disaster or guns. They care more about who's trans or not. And that applies to the entire party, their voters and supporters.

Oh, it's a lot worse than that. They initially declined it for the reasons you stated. They later accepted it and used the money on police toys and gadgets instead of actually applying it to weather safety systems and infrastructure.

StopBeinMad posted...

They'll change their tune when it's their families affected.

No the fuck they won't.

It doesn't matter if it's their neighbors, their friends, their families, their children...

They will not learn until the split-second between the bullet entering their skull and their deaths, just like all the "mah freedoms" idiots who choked out their last begging an ICU nurse to give them a COVID vaccine.

DrizztLink posted...

No the fuck they won't.

It doesn't matter if it's their neighbors, their friends, their families, their children...

They will not learn until the split-second between the bullet entering their skull and their deaths, just like all the "mah freedoms" idiots who choked out their last begging an ICU nurse to give them a COVID vaccine.

So to that extreme. Death bed changes many but Texans are a special breed. They might double down to think they were right.

Scardude posted...

So to that extreme. Death bed changes many but Texans are a special breed. They might double down to think they were right.

Also Floridians, and anyone else that leans very far right.

nocturnal_traveler posted...

Also Floridians, and anyone else that leans very far right.

You are basically dealing with crisis after crisis. On the bright side? I can't think of any. Many people will die with the administration in charge.