Greg Abbott adds anti-trans bathroom bill into Texas flood relief...

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Greg Abbott adds anti-trans bathroom bill into Texas flood relief special session

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Story by Gwen Howerton (14 July 2025)

Shortly after one of the most conservative legislative sessions in Texas history, Gov. Greg Abbott decided that he was hungry for more. The governor's cravings could impact transgender Texans.

In his proclamation, next to calls for bills to eliminate the STAAR test and further restrict abortion, Abbott called for "legislation protecting women's privacy in sex-segregated spaces." While the language is vague, longtime observers immediately clocked the governor's call as one for a bill requiring Texans to use the bathroom that corresponds with the sex on their original birth certificate. LGBTQ+ advocacy groups often refer to these bills as "bathroom bills."

"Texas leadership has made their opinion loud and clear-they do not believe trans people have the right to call Texas home," the Transgender Education Network of Texas wrote on Instagram.

Passing a bathroom bill is the last piece of major anti-trans legislation that Texas has yet to pass. On Monday, Texas Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Spring) filed the proposal, House Bill 32.

If passed, HB 32 would apply to bathrooms in public facilities like K-12 schools, state universities and buildings owned by state or local governments, requiring transgender Texans using bathrooms or changing facilities in them to use the facility corresponding with the sex on their original birth certificate.