Texas Texting Campaign Impersonates Trans Group

The Texas Tribune reports: The Transgender Education Network of Texas on Wednesday sent a cease and desist notice that demanded two digital messaging companies stop a client from impersonating the LGBTQ+ advocacy group in a series of texts sent this week to Texans. The texts, sent from at least three numbers Monday and Tuesday evening, … The post Texas Texting Campaign Impersonates Trans Group appeared first on Joe.My.God..

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Oct 17, 2026 - 20:00
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Texas Texting Campaign Impersonates Trans Group

The Texas Tribune reports:

The Transgender Education Network of Texas on Wednesday sent a cease and desist notice that demanded two digital messaging companies stop a client from impersonating the LGBTQ+ advocacy group in a series of texts sent this week to Texans.

The texts, sent from at least three numbers Monday and Tuesday evening, advertised guides on “bathrooms and beyond for trans kids at school” or offered to answer questions about gender-affirming care in Texas. The texts linked to TENT guides on how to respond to certain state laws and information about its advocacy work.

Although the messages linked to TENT’s website, the group said in a statement that it did not send them and didn’t know who did, adding the texts did not “represent the official position or communications of the organization.”

The texts prompted Texas Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, to send a Tuesday letter asking the state attorney general’s office to investigate TENT for “circumventing and violating” Senate Bill 12. When asked about TENT’s statement that it did not send the texts, Leach said he wanted “a diligent search for the truth, no matter where that search may lead.”

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Leach appeared here last year for his bill that would have allowed private citizens to collect a $100,000 bounty from anyone who provides abortion pills.

He first appeared here when he got a Texas college professor fired for a tweet critical of Mike Pence. That professor was later awarded a $70,000 settlement thanks to a lawsuit by the civil rights group FIRE.

Leach belongs to the Cottonwood Creek megachurch, which appeared here in 2015 when it hosted an awards ceremony by the hate group Texas Values, which honored GOP Texas reps for a pointless bill allowing pastors to refuse to officiate same-sex marriages, which they already could

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