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Texas attorney general threatens Austin over City Council’s effort to protect health care for transgender people | #citycouncil

Friday, May 3, 2024 by Amy Smith Shortly after City Council acted Thursday to protect transgender people from discriminatory health care laws, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a threatening statement, vowing to “consider every possible response to ensure compliance” with state law prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors. Against this backdrop of escalating anti-trans rhetoric within […]

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Opinion: City Council Must Call for a Cease-Fire: Raising our voice in Austin is the minimum moral action we can take – Columns | #citycouncil

Ever since October 7, it is hard to go a day without hearing about the horrifying violence happening in Israel and Palestine. Every day, we see the death toll in Gaza climb higher and higher; at the time of writing, it is reported to be at least 18,000 by the United Nations Office for the […]

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