Texas governor once again orders GOP legislators to try banning trans youth from sports

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas
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After Texas’s first special legislative session of the year ended with a significant number of lawmakers not in attendance, many contracting coronavirus, and several members skipping out of town to lobby in Washington DC, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has once again called a special legislative session to try to force his agenda into law.

An important priority of Abbott’s for this session, as it was in the last one, is passing anti-trans legislation.

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The regularly-scheduled legislative session for 2021 ran out of allotted time, and won’t resume until next January. Several legislative proposals considered during the term were subsequently inert. However, Texas’s Governor has the authority to call for a special session at any time with a simple order.

Last month, Gov. Abbott called the first of his special sessions, which he has pledged to keep calling until his legislative priorities are enacted.

His priorities included limiting voting rights, banning “critical race theory,” and limiting the rights of LGBTQ people. Abbott explicitly asked for the legislature to reconsider a bill to ban transgender youth from sports during this session.

In the first five business days of the special session, at least 12 anti-trans bills were introduced. None ultimately passed.

While Republicans have a majority…

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