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@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...

On Monday the Supreme Court announced it was remanding the now- infamous transgender case of Gavin Grimm to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. This comes following President Trump’s decision to reverse the Obama administration ’s guidance pushing public schools to let transgender kids to use bathrooms and other private facilities as the sex they identify with. The media, parents, and the LGBTQ lobby has been up in arms. Amid lawsuits and media blitzes, they claim these children just want to use the bathroom peacefully and quietly. They insist the unisex or separate male and female restrooms students have been using for the last 200 years of public education isn ’t enough and is, in fact, insulting to transgender students . This is absurd. While certainly every student should feel safe in school, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union are parlaying students’ desire for security and acceptance into a political agenda. What the Hubbub Is All About Last spring, two midlevel...

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...

“Defeating this discriminatory and dangerous legislation in Texas is a huge victory that will have an impact far beyond the Lone Star State ,” Kasey Suffredini, the acting chief executive of Freedom for All Americans, a national gay rights and transgender rights group , said in a statement. In the special session, conservative lawmakers passed a version of the bill in the Texas Senate, where Mr. Patrick presides, but the moderate Republicans who lead the Texas House never referred it to a House committee , so it was effectively dead on arrival in the chamber. Another version, written by a House lawmaker , was never given a hearing. The bills would effectively have required transgender people to use bathrooms, locker rooms or showers corresponding with the sex listed on their birth certificates, not their gender identity, in government buildings and schools. The procedural moves in the House that killed the bathroom bill were led in large part by the House speaker, Joe Straus of Sa...

“Defeating this discriminatory and dangerous legislation in Texas is a huge victory that will have an impact far beyond the Lone Star State ,” Kasey Suffredini, the acting chief executive of Freedom for All Americans, a national gay rights and transgender rights group , said in a statement. In the special session, conservative lawmakers passed a version of the bill in the Texas Senate, where Mr. Patrick presides, but the moderate Republicans who lead the Texas House never referred it to a House committee , so it was effectively dead on arrival in the chamber. Another version, written by a House lawmaker , was never given a hearing. The bills would effectively have required transgender people to use bathrooms, locker rooms or showers corresponding with the sex listed on their birth certificates, not their gender identity, in government buildings and schools. The procedural moves in the House that killed the bathroom bill were led in large part by the House speaker, Joe Straus of Sa...

Reuters By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Texas measures to restrict access for transgender people to bathrooms in schools and public buildings appear doomed after moderate Republican powerbrokers blocked the bills and hundreds of businesses opposed them. The so-called " bathroom bills " have caused rifts among Republicans who control the state's legislature, leaving no likely path to passage before a 30- day special session wraps on Wednesday, analysts and lawmakers said on Monday. Enactment in Texas, the most populous Republican -dominated state, could give momentum to other socially conservative states for additional action on an issue that has become a flashpoint in the U.S. culture wars. But House Speaker Joe Straus , a pro- business Republican who controls the agenda in the body, has shown little interest in passing a bathroom bill, which he said was not a priority. On Monday, opponents ...

By Michelle Casady Law360, Houston (August 16, 2017, 3:22 PM EDT) -- A special legislative session called for by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ended Tuesday without the House passing what opponents — including law firms and Texas Fortune 500 companies — have called an anti-transgender “bathroom bill,” but that doesn't mean the bill's fate has been sealed. The Texas Privacy Act , commonly referred to as the bathroom bill, would have required people to use the restroom, shower or changing facility that corresponds with the sex listed on their birth certificates and not the facility corresponding with their gender identity. Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick named the bill as one of his top 10 legislative priorities after Sen. Lois Kolkhorst introduced the bill in January. Kolkhorst said at the time it was meant to counteract a directive from the Obama administration that let children use the school bathroom that matches their gender identity. According to the Legislative Reference Libr...