From the @texastribune: Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the state’s near-total #abortion ban. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-first-abortion-arrests-attorney-general-investigation/
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.socialTexas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology
The state of Texas collected information on transgender residents who have changed the sex listed on their identification documents.
#KenPaxton, the #Texas AG, said in a statement that the #midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, operated clinics in several towns around Houston, including 2 in Harris County, the state’s most populous county, & one in Waller County, a more rural & conservative jurisdiction where the charges were brought.
From Kit @oconnell in 2022: How Texas used #NYTimes' inaccurate and misleading reporting about gender-affirming care for young people as evidence in court when the state accused supportive parents of child abuse. https://www.texasobserver.org/emily-bazelon-transgender-healthcare-debate-new-york-times/
#LGBTQIA+ #trans #Texas #KenPaxton #media #journalism #Healthcare #transphobia #news #politics #USpol
Think tankers, oil and gas magnates, and Republican politicians desperate to kiss the ring — beyond Elon Musk, visit the circus of #Texas oligarchs with the ear of the president. https://www.texasobserver.org/trumps-texas-tycoons/
The strategy propelled a first-of-its-kind lawsuit filed last month by #Texas AG [& all around POS] #KenPaxton that cited first-hand info from an unnamed “biological father” to accuse a NY doctor of illegally providing abortion pills to a woman in the Dallas area…
The case was inspired by a report Paxton’s office received from the man & emerged as part of a broader #abortion law enforcement op the AG has quietly created that includes searching for potential plaintiffs…
The DOJ has been investigating Texas AG Ken Paxton since 2020 on allegations that he misused his position to help a political donor. Under Trump, a Paxton ally, the yearslong investigation could come to an end.
Best of 2024, from Justin Miller: The Paxtons lent an air of prestige and legitimacy to James Frinzi’s otherwise obscure company. Frinzi wasn’t shy about boasting of his cozy ties to the powerful Paxtons. “He loved to talk about his buddy Ken.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/paxtons-lobbyist-ceo-alleged-fraud/
I appreciate Austin Free Press’ support for my reporting about the the LGBTQIA+ community and the issues we face. Here, I documented a successful drag fundraiser organized in response to recent attacks on trans rights by Attorney General Ken Paxton. https://austinfreepress.org/identity-crisis-austin-trans-community-dresses-for-battle-with-texas-attorney-general-paxton/
#LGBTQIA+ #Austin #Texas #Transphobia #KenPaxton #politics #USpol #news #trans #drag
Best of 2024, from Justin Miller: The Paxtons lent an air of prestige and legitimacy to James Frinzi’s otherwise obscure company. Frinzi wasn’t shy about boasting of his cozy ties to the powerful Paxtons. “He loved to talk about his buddy Ken.” https://www.texasobserver.org/paxtons-lobbyist-ceo-alleged-fraud/
“What we see is Mr. Frinzi in Europe on a private jet … fiddling while Rome Burns.”
Best of 2024: Justin Miller revealed Ken and Angela Paxton's ties to a lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud.
https://www.texasobserver.org/paxtons-lobbyist-ceo-alleged-fraud/
And so it has begun. #Texas #AntiAbortion #KenPaxton #NY
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.
This lawsuit is the first test. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/13/texas-paxton-abortion-pill-mail-lawsuit/
So glad I already voted for #KamalaHarris and #ColinAllred so I don't have to worry about that weirdo #KenPaxton and his poll watchers oh speaking of that weirdo he tried to ban porn in TX #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #TurnTexasBlue #TurnThePage
@WrenArcher@beige.partyFor the foreseeable future I can’t get my name legally changed and because of that won’t be able to vote as my true self. This is because the attorney general of #Texas is so obsessed with trans girls that he has directed our department of motor vehicles deny gender marker changes on a driver’s license. The directive also states to send him, to a specific email address, all documents associated with the name and gender marker change.
So last week I cosplayed as a boy and #ICompletedTheAssignment
Screw you #KenPaxton and Dan Patrick. Also, stay out of my DM’s. No means no. That goes for you too #TedCruz.
Annunciation House and the Illegal Humanitarian
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2024/11/annunciation-house-and-the-illegal-humanitarian/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton targets Annunciation House and other migrant shelters, accusing them of human trafficking and more.
In the latest Loon Star State: Voting?! Ken Paxton would like a word with you ... https://www.texasobserver.org/loon-star-state-ken-paxtons-voting-police/
@ProPublica Yeah fuck you #KenPaxton you absolute piece of shit #criminal #Herblood is on your slimy criminal hands.
@persagen@mastodon.socialOdessa, Texas Places $10k Bounty on Trans People Using Bathroom
https://truthout.org/articles/a-city-in-texas-just-put-10000-bounties-on-trans-people-using-the-bathroom
* ordinance’s enforcement mechanisms among the most extreme of any bathroom ban in U.S.
https://www.odessa-tx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-757
* bounty echoes the anti-abortion bounties seen in Texas (Mitchell)
Discrediting the Transphobic "Bathroom Predator" Myth
https://persagen.org/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html
So, I cleaned up, sourced, and expanded out my post about fascist lawmakers using the anti-trans pogrom to go after disability rights a little bit and published it on my website; extra paragraph and a half, cleaned up some wording, nothing major changed but it has source links now.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/10/20/nina-bytes-a-gateway-to-eliminationism/
Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism
"The short story here is that, lead by noted transphobic crook fascist Ken Paxton, seventeen GOP-controlled states (fifteen of which have recently passed anti-trans legislation) are asking federal courts to strike down a recent US Department of Health and Human Services rules update that helps to protect trans people from government discrimination, arguing that gender dysphoria shouldn’t be covered by disability rights legislation. The kicker however is that these states are asking for the entire rule to be removed, even though the majority of the 130 page federal rule has nothing to do with trans care or gender dysphoria, including provisions to prevent discrimination against disabled medical patients, the rights of disabled parents in child welfare cases, and folks who’ve become disabled as a result of contracting Long Covid. In other words, fascist lawmakers are now using the anti-trans moral panic they’ve spent years drumming up, to prosecute a eugenicist agenda against the rights of disabled Americans in real time."
