The Texas Legislature today plans to hear HB 1686, which seeks to ban transgender healthcare for minors. This bill would also restrict the use of public money or public assistance to provide affirming care for minors. HB 1686 will be heard in committee. […]
The Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs today will hear Senate Bill 8, an omnibus bill that seeks to divert public funds to private schools, censor educational content and programming across all grade levels, and allow school districts to impose fees and costs on parents who bring administrative complaints. […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2023 CONTACT: Emily Witt (she/hers), emily@tfn.org AUSTIN, Texas – The House Committee on Public Education spent six hours Tuesday night hearing a bill that would completely ban or restrict materials in public school libraries by creating a vague and undefined rating system with multiple levels of review by several state […]
As executive director of the Texas Freedom Network, I know fighting for a Texas that’s truly for all demands that I reserve a deep well of hope. Yet, I feel the frustration so many have as the right continues to use religious freedom as a weapon to advance a radical political agenda. […]
While turning the clock backward with his agenda of hate might be the state of Abbott’s Texas, it’s not the state of ours. […]
