Texas Hit With UN Complaint Over LGBTQ Rights

The Texas Standard reports:

Texas lawmakers were behind 1 in 5 of all anti-LGBTQ plus bills introduced nationwide in 2023. That’s according to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ political lobbying group in the U.S. Several of the Texas bills cited by the group became law, including one that blocks trans minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care and another restricting drag performances in the presence of children.

A number of organizations, including the ACLU of Texas, Equality Texas, and the legal rights group GLAAD, filed a complaint with United Nations on Monday warning of a systemic attack on the fundamental rights, dignities, and identities of LGBTQ+ people. Ariel Dulitzky, the director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law Human Rights Clinic and a signatory on the complaint letter, said the complaint is meant to function parallel to legal challenges.

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“What we argue in our letter is that it’s not about each individual bill passed by the Legislature, but the whole policy that attacks the rights and dignity of LGBTQIA+ persons in Texas,” said Ariel Dulitzky, Director of @UTLawHRClinic@TexasStandard https://t.co/GuyZEevrrn

— Equality Texas (@EqualityTexas) January 23, 2024

The complaint included signees from the ACLU of Texas and Equality Texas.https://t.co/etjmokKQtd

— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) January 23, 2024

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