Proposed legislation and policymaking surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in Texas schools took center stage in the Texas Legislature's 88th regular session earlier this year.
A new Texas law which opponents feared could ban some drag performances remains tied up in court.
A wave of laws prohibiting transgender athletes from participating with teams in line with their gender identity has swept the country in recent years. Will they stick?
Texas was among the states contributing to book restrictions across the nation, a surge that set a record in 2022 and appears on track to do the same in 2023, according to the American Library Association.
Texas lawmakers sought to create consequences for libraries that hosted drag story times after a 2019 incident in Houston, but LGBTQ+ advocates and performers alike banded together earlier this year to stop these events from ending up in the history books.
How do you cover a story when you’re part of it? For LGBTQ+ journalists at KXAN, the record number of bills filed at the Texas State Capitol in 2023 restricting their community brought concerns – and presented an opportunity.
Houston attorney Neil Giles smiles at the very mention of his twins, both of whom attend the University of Texas at Austin and both of whom identify as non-binary.
This year, legislature that moved through the Texas Senate aimed to make changing gender markers on a birth certificate impossible for trans minors. Activists worry it could be the first step in an effort to make changing a gender marker on a birth certificate impossible for all Texans.
In 2023, Texas lawmakers filed a historic number of bills – 141 in all – impacting the LGBTQ+ community. That legislation accounted for one-fifth of all such state-level measures across the U.S. this year, according to analyses compiled by Human Rights Campaign and Equality Texas. Cross-referencing bills through the Texas Legislature Online, KXAN relied on those advocacy groups’ statistics because the state does not readily track those numbers.
In 2023, a fifth of all state-level bills filed impacting the LGBTQ+ community came from Texas, according to a Human Rights Campaign analysis.
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Gallai wneud synnwyr i lynu at yr enwau Cymraeg ar lefydd yn unig mewn rhai achosion, yn ôl Jeremy Miles.