Rep Jones: When we hear that transgender individuals are attacking Texans, it's actually the other way around.
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!!"
More reps talking in opposition. A rep talks about her son, whose long hair gets him misgendered consistently. "SB 8 turns that into law."
We're on hour 5 of this vote, btw.
Someone stands in the gallery: SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU MOTHERFUCKERS SHAME
Rep in opposition to the bill: What if your future granddaughter is trans? Rep in support: She won't be.
Heartless monster.
Another protestor stands. SHAME SHAME ON YOU. They're clearing the gallery. It's been real, y'all.
That's dangerous. So dangerous. And they don't care.
who was that directed at because i agree the gop is constantly guilty of freak behavior
Definitely the proponents of the bill