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Wed Mar 31, 2021, 12:44 AM Mar 2021

Beto O'Rourke Testifies in Support of Trans Children

Former state representative Beto O’Rourke joined dozens of Texans at the Capitol on March 26 to advocate against the anti-transgender Senate Bill 29.

The bill, written by Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) and marked as one of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s top 31 priorities, would ban trans children from participating in student athletics that match their gender identities.

O’Rourke, who said earlier this week he drove over eight hours to Austin from El Paso to fight bills that would harm Texans, told a Senate committee he “learned a lot” from listening to those who were testifying both for and against SB 29.

“What struck me the most was the grace, the patience, and the generosity of the parents of transgender children, and those transgender children themselves, for helping us to understand what their lives are like,” O’Rourke said. “I know that has to move you, because it moved me.”

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2021/03/beto-orourke-testifies-in-support-of-trans-children/

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