Anonymous
8/20/2025, 5:58:02 AM
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Broad Trans Bathroom Ban Passes Texas Senate in Special Session
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/broad-trans-bathroom-ban-passes-texas
>Ash Hall, a policy strategist at the Texas ACLU, looked tired as they testified yet again in front of the Texas State Senate, this time on the afternoon of August 15.
>“Obviously, I’ve already talked to y’all about this before,” they said. The bill on the docket—a so-called “trans bathroom ban” for publicly funded institutions, including everything from schools to airports—encourages cruelty, frivolous lawsuits, and “gender policing,” Hall argued.
>Earlier this month, Hall was among a hundred Texans (at least) to voice opposition to the bill during the first 2025 special legislative session. At 10 a.m. on Friday, that session adjourned.
>Twenty minutes later, Governor Greg Abbott announced a new one, scheduled for noon the same day. And once again, the bathroom bill, which anti-trans politicians have labelled the “Texas Women’s Privacy Act,” is back on the table. Versions of it have been proposed in Texas for nearly a decade.
>“The Senators filed bills, the bills got referred to committees, and then the Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing on the bathroom ban (now under the new bill number SB 8)—all within a single day,” said a state-based civil rights group, Equality Texas, in an email blast. “This is not normal [...] The rules state they must give the public 24 hours’ notice before a hearing. However, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick suspended the rules so committee hearings could begin immediately.”
>Ash Hall, a policy strategist at the Texas ACLU, looked tired as they testified yet again in front of the Texas State Senate, this time on the afternoon of August 15.
>“Obviously, I’ve already talked to y’all about this before,” they said. The bill on the docket—a so-called “trans bathroom ban” for publicly funded institutions, including everything from schools to airports—encourages cruelty, frivolous lawsuits, and “gender policing,” Hall argued.
>Earlier this month, Hall was among a hundred Texans (at least) to voice opposition to the bill during the first 2025 special legislative session. At 10 a.m. on Friday, that session adjourned.
>Twenty minutes later, Governor Greg Abbott announced a new one, scheduled for noon the same day. And once again, the bathroom bill, which anti-trans politicians have labelled the “Texas Women’s Privacy Act,” is back on the table. Versions of it have been proposed in Texas for nearly a decade.
>“The Senators filed bills, the bills got referred to committees, and then the Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing on the bathroom ban (now under the new bill number SB 8)—all within a single day,” said a state-based civil rights group, Equality Texas, in an email blast. “This is not normal [...] The rules state they must give the public 24 hours’ notice before a hearing. However, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick suspended the rules so committee hearings could begin immediately.”
