Texan Goes Viral For Calling Out Legislators Over Anti-Trans Bill
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Story by Paige Skinner (29 May 2025)
A Texas resident gave an impassioned speech against an anti-trans bill during a Texas Senate committee hearing, asking legislators if they're tired of being on the wrong side of history.
"If we were sitting here like 50 years ago, maybe 60 years ago, instead of talking about trans women going into bathrooms, you'd be talking about Black women going into white bathrooms," Nick Mollberg said at the May 15 committee hearing. "Do y'all ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history? Opposed to women's suffrage, as you were, conservatives, throughout history? Opposed to interracial marriage, opposed to civil rights."
Mollberg asked the state senators what their grandkids would say to them in the future.
"They're going to look at you the same way the grandchildren of segregationists looked at their bigoted grandparents," he said.
Several transgender people also testified against the bill, including Autumn Lauener, vice president of The Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Scholars... She said House Bill 229 "accomplishes nothing."
"It does not protect children," Lauener said. "It does not support families. It serves only to erase, to attempt to write transgender and intersex people out of the story of Texas. But our existence is resistance, and we will never stop resisting. Our community will not be erased. Nothing this legislator does can end who we are. We have always been here, and we are not going anywhere."
Quote from: Jessica_Rose on May 30, 2025, 06:58:39 AMIt serves only to erase, to attempt to write transgender and intersex people out of the story of Texas. But our existence is resistance, and we will never stop resisting. Our community will not be erased...We have always been here, and we are not going anywhere."
Somehow, get this out there!