A rep: "I hope my colleagues in support of this bill never experience the trauma that people in the LGBT community experience. Because I do not think you'd be able to handle it."
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Another rep stands up to remind the House that HB 8 will drive away business and tourism: "This bill threatens our ability to attract the best to Texas."
aug 28, 2025, 10:51 pm • 12 0 • view
"Discrimination has no place in our laws."
aug 28, 2025, 10:52 pm • 9 0 • view
Rep Turner: Senate Bill 8 is big government at its worst. It tells Texans where they can go and where they cannot go. Even worse, it watches you. Even worse, it tells Texans to rat each other out.
aug 28, 2025, 10:54 pm • 15 1 • view
Rep Turner: This is the most un-Texan bill that this body has ever taken up.
aug 28, 2025, 10:57 pm • 13 1 • view
Rep listing the names of Black trans women killed this year.
aug 28, 2025, 11:00 pm • 11 0 • view
Rep raising up the story of Passion Star, a Black trans woman who faced horrific violence in Texas prison. legacy.lambdalegal.org/blog/2016120...
aug 28, 2025, 11:03 pm • 9 0 • view
Rep: This bill is not just cruel. It's unconstitutional.
aug 28, 2025, 11:04 pm • 10 1 • view
Rep: This bill is not about Texas.
aug 28, 2025, 11:04 pm • 7 0 • view
Rep Jones: When we hear that transgender individuals are attacking Texans, it's actually the other way around.
aug 28, 2025, 11:07 pm • 15 1 • view
Rep Gonzalez from El Paso: 400,000 women and girls in Texas are assaulted in Texas every year. But we're not talking about that now.
aug 28, 2025, 11:10 pm • 10 0 • view
One of so many.
aug 28, 2025, 10:59 pm • 1 0 • view