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For Immediate Release: New Poll Shows Increasing Support for Transgender Rights June 12, 2019 at 1:52 pm New data released by national polling organization Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) shows majority support across the country to protect transgender Americans from discrimination.
For Immediate Release: Texas Anti-LGBTQ Bill Signed Into Law by Governor Greg Abbott June 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm SB 1978 does not take away the rights of LGBTQ people, it does advance the message that anti-LGBTQ views deserve special protections.
For Immediate Release: New Quinnipiac University Poll Shows Texas Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Refusing to Serve LGBTQ People by a 3 to 1 Margin June 6, 2019 at 2:29 pm A new Quinnipiac University poll shows Texans believe that businesses should NOT be allowed to refuse service to someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Celebrates 30th Anniversary June 5, 2019 at 11:44 am Equality Texas, incorporated in 1989, commemorates its biggest heroes, milestones and victories across three decades of fighting for LGBTQ equality in the state of Texas.
For Immediate Release: Statement by Lou Weaver, Equality Texas Transgender Programs Coordinator, on the Discovery of Another Murdered Transgender Woman in Dallas June 3, 2019 at 4:43 pm The transgender community and allies across Texas are reeling with the discovery of the body today in Dallas of Chynal Lindsey, a Black transgender woman.
For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Announces New Board Members and Officers June 3, 2019 at 9:45 am Equality Texas announced new members of the Equality Texas Foundation and Equality Texas Boards of Directors as well as new Equality Texas board officers.
For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Searching for New Chief Executive Officer May 29, 2019 at 10:35 am Equality Texas is launching a search for a new chief executive officer to lead the organization into the future.
Shifting the Narrative — the 86th Legislative Session May 28, 2019 at 3:28 pm
For Immediate Release: Equality Texas Blocked Nearly 20 Anti-LGBTQ Bill This Session May 28, 2019 at 2:40 pm The death of 20 LGBTQ bills this legislative session is evidence of the growing political strength of and support for the LGBTQ rights movement.
For Immediate Release: Proposed Trump Administration Rollbacks of ACA Nondiscrimination Regulations Jeopardize Transgender Texans’ Access to Health Care May 24, 2019 at 4:50 pm The Trump administration’s new proposed regulation would erase all recognition by the Department of Health and Human Services of protections for transgender people under the Health Care Rights Law.

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