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.
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.
Rep Turner: This is the most un-Texan bill that this body has ever taken up.
Rep listing the names of Black trans women killed this year.
Rep raising up the story of Passion Star, a Black trans woman who faced horrific violence in Texas prison. legacy.lambdalegal.org/blog/2016120...
Rep: This bill is not just cruel. It's unconstitutional.
Rep: This bill is not about Texas.
Rep Jones: When we hear that transgender individuals are attacking Texans, it's actually the other way around.
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.
Rep likening HB 8 to the Third Reich using Jim Crow and other US laws to model the holocaust. "You are creating a law because you hate people."
Rep: "There are authoritarians in Europe, in Asia, who are looking at the US and finding a new way to kill people."
Rep Rosenthal is EXCORIATING supporters of HB 8 right now. "You don't care about women."
One of so many.