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Anger as Texas attorney general declares Pride Week ‘illegal’

‘The Texas Legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents – not school districts – are in charge,’ writes Ken Paxton

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Attorney General Ken Paxton appeals to Texas Supreme Court as state halts probes into parents of trans children

AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the Texas Supreme Court to allow the state to restart its abuse investigations into the parents of transgender children.

Tribune News Service

Texas appeals court again halts child abuse investigations into parents of transgender youth

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas appeals court has again temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents solely for providing gender affirming care to their transgender children.

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Conservative satire site The Babylon Bee locked out of Twitter for misgendering trans White House official

The Christian parody outlet is refusing to delete a tweet deliberately referring to Biden official Dr Rachel Levine as a man

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SC Sen. Tim Scott says Supreme Court vote on Judge Jackson won’t be based on skin color

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Texas AG Ken Paxton refuses to call transgender official Rachel Levine a woman — again

AUSTIN, Texas — After Twitter flagged him for “hateful conduct,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dug in on his decision to deny the gender identity of the nation’s highest-ranking transgender official.

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Twitter flags Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's tweet about US assistant health secretary, who is transgender

FORT WORTH, Texas — Twitter has decided it would be in the public's best interest to keep a tweet from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on its website after he called U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine a man.

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Trump’s spokeswoman attacks Jeb Bush’s son ahead of Texas attorney general runoff

George P Bush will face Ken Paxton in a runoff for Texas’s attorney general’s race

The Independent UK

Texas governor’s order to treat transgender children’s care as child abuse is blocked by judge

Policy has caused ‘terror and anxiety’ among transgender youth and their families, lawsuit says

The Independent UK

‘I Don’t Know Where It’s Safe’: Family of Trans Child Who Dined With Ken Paxton Is Facing Child Abuse Investigation

The Dallas-area family says it is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and at risk of losing their kids.

Texas Observer

Does Texas think transgender care is abuse? Ken Paxton’s comments contradict state's legal stance

AUSTIN, Texas — Fighting to keep his job in a heated GOP primary this year, Attorney General Ken Paxton repeatedly insisted that certain medical treatments for transgender youth abusive and illegal.

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The State of Paxton v. Bush

What’s worse for a Republican in 2022: To be an alleged felon, or to bear the same last name as Jeb and the Georges?

Texas Observer

State Bar of Texas seeks sanctions against Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell over Trump 2020 vote disputes

AUSTIN, Texas — The State Bar of Texas is seeking sanctions against Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell over her failed efforts to contest the 2020 election results on behalf of the Donald Trump campaign.

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Texas appeals court sides with parent of transgender teen in case of alleged child abuse

DALLAS — A judge will consider whether to block Texas’ new directive defining certain care for transgender youth as child abuse, after an appeals court sided with the family of a trans teen who sued over the policy.

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The Independent UK

They hosted him for dinner. Now he’s accusing them of child abuse

‘Raising a transgender child in Texas has been one long political emergency’

Salon

Trans teen caught up in Paxton's game

Parents of a trans child who reached out to Paxton over dinner are now under investigation for child abuse

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gender-affirming care needs more research, not more politics

It is hard for most of us to imagine what it is like to have a child who is experiencing gender dysphoria. Even as the number of children expressing such feelings has been rising at a concerning rate across the country, such cases remain a tiny fraction of the total…

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Trump boasts he went 33-0 in Texas primary, though AG Ken Paxton and 4 others face runoffs

WASHINGTON – Two days after the Texas primary, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey disappointed many Republicans by announcing he wouldn’t run for U.S. Senate. Donald Trump, who despises Ducey for rejecting his lies about the 2020 election, was not among them.

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Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 12

Welcome to The Heart of the Primaries, Republican Edition

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Paxton, Bush advance to runoff in Texas Attorney General Republican primary

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and George P. Bush advanced to a May 24 primary runoff, after neither candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the March 1 primary election.

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Voters in three states to decide on changes to the ballot initiative process this year

Welcome to the Thursday, March 3, Brew.

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As judge halts directive regarding transgender child, Biden tells Texans to file federal complaints

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a new state directive defining gender-affirming care for transgender children as “child abuse” in the case of a 16-year-old teenager.

Reason

Texas Sued As State Starts Investigating Parents of Trans Children for 'Child Abuse'

ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”

The Guardian - US

Success for progressives in Texas while Trump ally suffers major blow

Attorney general Ken Paxton heads to nomination runoff against Jeb Bush’s son while progressive Jessica Cisneros celebrates runoff

The Guardian - US

White House unveils new Covid strategy including ‘test to treat’ plan – as it happened

White House Covid team unveils plan for next phase of pandemic including model where people who test positive can easily get treatment

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