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Jon Herskovitz Aug 15th 2017 10:57PM AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas measures to restrict access for transgender people to bathrooms in schools and public buildings died on Tuesday as the House adjourned and ended its special legislative session . Business leaders and civil rights groups had campaigned heavily to defeat the bills, saying they were discriminatory and would damage the economy. The measures were blocked by moderate House Republicans . Enactment in Texas, the most populous Republican- dominated state , could have given momentum to other socially conservative states for additional action on an issue that has become a flashpoint in the U.S. culture wars. 10 PHOTOS Protests against North Carolina transgender bathroom law See Gallery ASHEVILLE, NC - JUNE 21: A display inside Malaprop 's Bookstore/Cafe in Asheville, North Carolina features books by authors who support the repeal of HB2 on June 21, 2016. Malaprop's has had authors cancel and a decline in sales du...

(iStock) Erin Mast doesn ’t relish taking her teenage son, Carter, into the women’s bathroom. He has a mustache, and at 5 feet 11 inches, he towers over his mother. The 13-year-old draws stares, glares and lately, confrontations. “Leave your retard home if he can’t go to the bathroom by himself,” a stranger snapped at her a few weeks ago. Carter Mast has autism and he has what are called “high support” needs. He requires a caregiver for a variety of daily activities, including use of the restroom. If he’s out with his mom, that means he needs to use the bathroom with her too, and his mom stands firm . “People say awful things,” Mast says of residents in her small Upstate New York town of Sodus. “But I’m going to take him to the bathroom, no matter what people say.” What scares Mast more than the comments, though, is the threat of legislation such as House Bill 2, a law passed in North Carolina last year that required people to use the restroom matching the sex or gender they were...

@ashleysmithhair Instagram G overnor Greg Abbott of Texas has a pet bill. It’s yet another one of those anti transgender bathroom bills . The governor wants to ensure public bathrooms are for your assigned birth only. Abbott wants to punish transgender people by law if they are caught violating this law. He never factored in Ashley Smith and her now viral bathroom buddy photo . Ashley Smith is a trans woman who recently went to one of his public appearances. There were protestors outside, but she went inside and got a selfie with him. It was easy to do because the governor saw a woman. That was all he saw, a woman. So he took a selfie with her and she put it on Instagram with the caption, “How will the Potty Police know I’m transgender if the Governor doesn’t?” and tagged it #bathroombuddy. She has pointed out of the problems with policing bathrooms. We have to go by visual bias as to what is and is not a man or a woman. All of these evangelical bill proposers thinks they know, but t...