Rep Turner: This is the most un-Texan bill that this body has ever taken up.
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."
Reps now talking in support of the bill. A demonstrator stands, "You're freaks!! That's freak behavior!!"
One of so many.