Texas governor signs new law targeting transgender youth as suicide hotline calls soar

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a new law forbidding students from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity. Instead, the gender listed on their birth certificate will be the sole arbiter of what team they are allowed to join.

Abbott, one of the most vociferously anti-LGBTQ governors in the nation, promised donors earlier this week that he will promote legislation attacking transgender children “every single session that we have.”

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The bill is set to go into effect in January, but no enforcement mechanism has been put in place. A similar law in West Virginia has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Texas is now the tenth state to pass laws targeting transgender student-athletes this year. Legislators have introduced over 40 bills targeting the children; this is the first to pass and be signed into law.

The results of lawmakers’ attacks on children couldn’t be more clear or predictable.  As the state legislator has debated the bills through multiple sessions, making vile comments about the kids, suicide and depression rates have skyrocketed.

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