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Texas Bathroom Bill Dead (Blow a goat, Abbott!)
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BoogieWoogie
Banned
Fucking GOOD. God damn I needed good news.
Generalpsyduck
Banned
That was unexpected.
TheContact
Member
Is the argument against this that anyone can just claim to be the opposite gender at a moments notice and be able to legally walk in the bathroom? Yea I get there's some creeps out there but do people pretend to switch genders just to creep in bathrooms?
Fulminator
Member
I just think everyone should use the same bathroom
Like it's a bathroom
Like it's a bathroom
Velcro Fly
Member
Enough people still have a conscience it seems. Good.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
That is strange.
perfectchaos007
Member
Maybe Ashley Smith played a part...
I bet she did. Most of these Texas congressmen and senators still probably have a very antiquated view on what trans people are. I feel like seeing her there may have opened some eyes, and made many of these insular politicians to finally realize "Hey, maybe we DONT want to force a woman that looks like her to use a mens restroom. That would be ridiculous". The bill needed a real trans "face" behind it, and Ashley was a great one.
The various boards that would have been sunsetted, like the Medical Board, received funding - that was the core fundamental reason that required a special session, and it would have been a major fuck up for those boards to shut down.
The rest of this nonsense about trees, school vouchers, taxes, and the bathroom bill, was Abbott using it as a chance to pass the policies he wanted outside of the regular constrictions of the legislature.
I largely disagree with our House Chairman, Joe Strauss, but he's consistent in his beliefs as a stereotypical Texas Republican, and utterly knows how to work the system., and those don't match with Abbott's libertarian/Teaparty streak. So we have this standoff between the traditional Texas Republicans & the more "fringe" element that's currently got power.
Texas is weirder than y'all think.
As great as this photo is, it's not going to sway any Texas congressperson who wasn't already on the right side of justice. The bathroom bill got defeated on economics because the House had been against it from the beginning on the impact on state business & conventions vs the ideology of the senate that is much more Tea Party controlled.
Escape Goat
Member
I move that you be banned for your disparaging comments about goats.
You and Greg Abbott might get along, you never know. He wouldn't be the first secretly gay Texas Governor.
Are you a woman?
I mean it's easy to say things than to actually have them in reality.
I don't mind the idea of cross gender bathrooms, but i think it happily be a voluntary option.
For years and years, rumors flew about Perry being gay. The standard rumor is that someone walked in on him and an intern while the intern was blowing him.
And Perry's adamant belief that homosexuality is like alcoholism caused a lot of people to wonder if he were just "on the wagon" so to speak.
He's denied it every time someone's had the gall to ask.
You know he's breathing a sigh of relief that he won't have to sign that Shit into law. Imagine being the governor that cost the state billions. Next up tearing down confederate monuments. The confederate monument here in San Antonio should be coming down soon too...hopefully.
I had no idea! I didn't follow the special session as closely as I wanted to. I'm really glad we kept out shit semi together with this then
The rest of this nonsense about trees, school vouchers, taxes, and the bathroom bill, was Abbott using it as a chance to pass the policies he wanted outside of the regular constrictions of the legislature.
I largely disagree with our House Chairman, Joe Strauss, but he's consistent in his beliefs as a stereotypical Texas Republican, and utterly knows how to work the system., and those don't match with Abbott's libertarian/Teaparty streak. So we have this standoff between the traditional Texas Republicans & the more "fringe" element that's currently got power.
Texas is weirder than y'all think.
I'm digging that we're slowly but surely going blue. Give it another ten years tops, I think. I was really pissed about Abbott's list going into the session, but I was following people who were desperately trying to add bills that actually mattered. Like the fact that our medical marijuana bill activating this September is pretty much unworkable, among other things.
Hopefully 2019 is the year of Getting Shit Done in Texas. I don't have that much hope though.
Are you talking about the cannabis oil bill?
Maybe he's super repressed or something?
That's the one, yeah. I used the worst wording for it. I wasn't big enough in scope but it's /something/ for people who need it
Yeah, there's a monument here in Houston that's also coming down soon. I think Mayor Turner mentioned it earlier today.
The cannabis oil bill passed but its a fucking mess for sure. They are going to make people jump thro hoops to get it. There were two more mj bills that didn't make it one was a decriminalization bill and the other was a bill to get around the fuckery of the cannabis oil bill. The Texas marijuana policy project has been making great strides lots of work left tho!
We should replace those confederate monuments with ones honoring our fellow Texans that served in the union during the civil war.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Stay losing Republicans, because all you do policy wise is hurt the poor or minority groups.
OmnipotentO
Member
I'll be honest and say I was not expecting this. Good job to everyone that helped block that load of horse shit.
Futurematic
Member
Free market, baby.
Is that an unusual position for opponents of gay marriage to take? That's always been the exact comparison everyone I knew back home used for homosexuality. They'd made it far enough to understand it was inherent in humans, but since God forbid it, they figured it was like other sinful traits some of us have built in. Fairly certain they weren't closeted, self loathing gay folk. (At least, not all of them)
Yeah, someone submitted a fix for the CBD bill for the special session but there was noooo way it was going to get any time. The other bills looked great and had unprecedented support and only died because of time! TMPP has been doing great, professional, work over here and they've been fun to follow. If there's a big push in 2019 I think we can get it! It at least had time for discussion during the special session, and all of this is unprecedented
We should replace those confederate monuments with ones honoring our fellow Texans that served in the union during the civil war.
Yes!!!