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LGBTQ Texans, allies rally to protest bills targeting queer community

Chants of “Protect trans kids” echoed across the Capitol as hundreds of LGBTQ Texans and their supporters gathered Saturday afternoon to express anger and fear over a slate of rapidly moving bills targeting queer people.The mid-April heat matched the anger many felt toward Republican lawmakers who seek to ban transgender students from playing college sports, queer youth from accessing transition-related health care and other efforts to restrict LGBTQ rights.“Welcome to the resistance,” said Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality Texas, an LGBTQ advocacy group that organized the march, as he implored protesters to do everything in their power to stop the ...

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