Trans Rights

The 21-year-old spoke at Birchman Baptist Church to share her experience as a teenager who identified as a transgender male but now identifies as a woman.

The attorney general's office is challenging the validity of a district judge's order that limits how much information PFLAG, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, has to hand over about Texas families seeking gender-affirming care for children.

The governor signed Texas' Senate Bill 8 into law on Monday. The so-called "bathroom bill" prohibits people in many publicly owned spaces from using restrooms that don't align with the sex listed on their birth certificate. LGBTQ+ groups and advocates are calling the measure another attack on transgender Texans.

One of the nation’s first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says, nearly a year after the state sued the physician.

After hours of debate, the Texas House on Thursday passed Senate Bill 8. The so-called “bathroom bill" restricts access to public restrooms for transgender people. Once the state Senate approves the House’s changes, the measure heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

The bills would carry a $5,000 fine for a first-time violation and comes as momentum for such restrictions has increased in the state and nationally.

The Texas House voted 87-58 to approve Senate Bill 1257 on Monday. The measure requires health care providers who provide gender transition health care to also cover any care related to "adverse effects and reversals."

The teen said they have felt frustrated and helpless since learning their anonymized medical records may be used in Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit against their doctor.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton started investigating Dallas ISD after a secretly recorded video suggested a district employee wasn’t following state law requiring students to participate in sports based on their biological sex at birth. That person is no longer with the district.

Paxton, a vocal opponent of LGBTQ rights, issued an opinion Friday saying court orders changing driver’s licenses and birth certificates are not valid.

On social media, Self later wrote “it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”

Ken Paxton has sent letters to Richardson and Hutto ISDs requesting they turn over their policies related to a state law requiring students participate in sports aligned with their assigned sex at birth. It comes after he demanded documents from Dallas and Irving ISDs.