"Texas' virulently anti-trans attorney general, Ken Paxton (R), has launched a tip line that allows people to report on suspected trans people they believe are violating the state's new bathroom ban. In a statement announcing the tip line, Paxton said the Texas Women's Privacy Act - which requires people in public buildings to use bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth - "was passed to ensure that women and girls in Texas are protected from mentally ill men wanting to violate their basic right to privacy." "It's absolute insanity that action like this is even needed," he claimed, "but unfortunately, in the day and age of radical leftism, it is.""
"In reality, research has shown no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex spaces like bathrooms poses a safety risk to cisgender women. In fact, forcing trans people to use facilities that do not align with their gender identity can result in "high rates of harassment and violence against transgender people as well as cisgender people, particularly women who do not conform to traditional ideas of femininity," according to the Movement Advancement Project. A 2021 study from UCLA's Williams Institute found that trans people are four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent crime."
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks against Republicans supporting Rep. Dustin Burrows in the Texas House speaker’s race at the headquarters for Texas Scorecard, a conservative think tank, in Leander Tuesday January 7, 2025. The event in Leander came after a similar rally in Fort Worth where Paxton urged grassroots Republicans to pressure GOP members of the Texas House not to give power to Democratic lawmakers during the upcoming legislative session."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a tip line enabling people to report suspected transgender individuals believed to be violating the Texas Women's Privacy Act, which requires use of bathrooms based on sex assigned at birth. Paxton framed the law as protecting women and girls from "mentally ill men" and described the tip line as necessary amid "radical leftism." Research shows no evidence that allowing trans women access to single-sex bathrooms increases safety risks for cisgender women. Forcing transgender people into facilities that do not match their gender identity raises rates of harassment and violence. A 2021 Williams Institute study found transgender people face four times the risk of violent-crime victimization compared with cisgender people.
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