Callie Butcher

Mom, Attorney, Feminist, 🏳️‍⚧️ | 9th Gen. Texan | Immediate Past-President, Dallas LGBT Bar Association | Posts not intended as legal advice. @CallieForTexas

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@mo4texas We love you Mo. Thank you for all the work you do day in and day out.

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

On #HB778 / #SB1257 Leach loves this phrase “if you take someone to the dance you have to take them home,” that’s not what the bill says. It says if you ever took anyone to a dance you have to pay to make sure anyone else that ever attends a dance has a ride home. #txlege

[Senator Roland Gutierrez @RolandForTexas]

From registering to vote to using the bathroom, Republicans want you to carry your birth certificate on you at all times to do damn near anything in Texas.

It’s not about protecting you and your rights, it’s about them controlling your freedom. #txlege

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@LGBTActivist Swanson’s responses were such a joke. Had she even read her bill?

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@kissphoria I feel this so much.

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

A political proposal of a different kind: Dallas lawmaker pops the question💍on the first day of the 2024 legislative session.

cc @VentonJonesTX

https://t.co/50hvQfONxf #txlege

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The two Democratic "yes" votes were Cuellar (TX-28) and Gonzalez (TX-34).

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that
Indiana's gender affirming care ban, including an aiding and abetting provision, is likely constitutional.

It cites Dobbs 21 times.

The ruling was a divided 2-1 ruling, with the two judges being a Bush and Trump appointee.

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@ProgressTX Notable absence there… 🙄

[katie @katefeetie]

is the left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a right wing that’s ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Drag performers could be sued by children they perform in front of under a new bill filed in Texas. The bill would allow lawsuits to be filed up to 10 years after the performance - even if the child was brought there by their parents. #txlege

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@kissphoria The clear implication from this bill is that its designed to punish and dissuade physicians, hospitals and insurance providers from providing evidence-based health care critical to the health and safety of transgender Texans, regardless of whether they are youth or adults.

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@kissphoria I did, that is is a refiling of last session’s SB1029 by Hall. This bill would be unprecedented under Texas law because of the sweeping and near limitless liability that it imposes.

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@JavanGonzalez Certainly.

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

The anti-lgbt bills are coming in hot. I’ll put a summary together later today but I want to call out how invasive these bills are HB1123 from Lopez requires genetic testing of child athletes for competition in K- 12 sports. That is sick. #txlege

[quorumreport @quorumreport]

rep john bryant enters race for speaker: https://t.co/jyH5ANFeIW #txlege

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

Another example, HB403 by Swanson would house inmates based on the gender on their original birth certificate even if it conflicts with the “inmate’s sex organs as determined during the intake screening required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act National Standards” #txlege

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

@kissphoria Looks like a copy of HB3502 filed last session…

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

Additional attacks on DEI programs, book bans, restrictions on social media, adding life begins at conception to public school curriculum, school vouchers, voter ID, anti-BDS provisions, definitions of “sex”, ban on updating gender on identity documents, and lots more #txlege

[Callie Butcher @thatcallie]

Here we go y’all. As of today the Texas Legislators can start filing bills for the 2025 session and we already have some bangers…

#txlege