Texas Is CRIMINALIZING The LGBTQ+ Community

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has just declared that Austin Independent school district’s traditional celebration of Pride Week is in violation of Texas law, claiming that the event qualifies as “sex education” without parental consent. The school district has celebrated its LGBTQ+ community for at least eight years prior to the bigoted overhaul of Texas’ education laws. Cenk Uygur, Emma Vigeland, and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/texas-attorney-general-pride-week-breaking-state-law

"The attorney general of Texas has declared a school district’s celebration of LGBTQ+ students “sex education” and in violation of Texas law.

For the past eight years, students in the Austin Independent school district have held a district-wide Pride week as a chance to celebrate LGBTQ+ students, staff and families in the district, according to the district’s website.

But on Tuesday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sent a letter to the school district calling Pride week “sex education” and notifying the school that without parental consent, the celebration is “breaking state law”.

“The Texas legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents – not school districts – are in charge,” said Paxton in his letter shared to Twitter.

“By hosting ‘Pride week’, your district has, at best, undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent,” continued Paxton. “Or, worse, your district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of your students that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop. Either way, you are breaking state law.”"

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