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Here is the Texas Minute for Tuesday, June 11, 2024.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

DPS Apprehends First of Texas’ Top 10 Most Wanted Illegal Aliens

• Just one day after Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a list of the top ten most wanted illegal aliens in Texas, DPS apprehended the first one. Will Biagini has the details.
        
• Servando Trejo Duran Jr., an illegal alien from Mexico, has a long history of criminal activity, including homicide and burglary.
     
• “These fugitives will be put behind bars for a very long time.” – Greg Abbott

Phelan Evicts Local GOP from Headquarters

• After narrowly avoiding defeat in the Texas GOP primary runoff, Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont is evicting the Orange County Republican Party from its offices. 
      
• In a letter to the Orange County GOP, Phelan Investments told the local GOP they must be out of the space by July 5 and “continue to pay rent until this date.” The party had been leasing the space from the speaker's family since late 2019.
     
• No reason is given for the eviction, but the Orange County GOP censured Phelan over his legislative performance.
      
• Nothing says, "Put the primary in the past and unite against the Democrats," quite like an eviction notice...

University of North Texas Health Science Center Promotes Gender Mutilation

• The University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth has been teaching its students transgender medical procedures while promoting DEI activism. Emily Medeiros reports that Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French uncovered the documents.
      
• For example, a Pharmacy class is offered on “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Health and Practice Issues.” It promises to provide  “advanced discussions of the social, economic, and ethical issues” around the gay community.
      
• French found that UNT’s website points users to trans-supporting doctors, including one at Baylor Scott & White who sees patients ages 3-18.

Doctor's Fight Exposes Bureaucratic Abuse in Medicine

• A congressional hearing last week exposed multiple misapplications of science and medicine in 2020 and 2021. As Daniel Greer reports, the hearing revealed social distancing was made up, cloth masks were worse than useless, and the shots developed and marketed as able to stop the spread did no such thing. 
       
• But one of the doctors who succeeded in fighting COVID-19 was Texas' Mary Talley Bowden. The Texas Medical Board has attacked her for successfully treating her patients against the dictates of the establishment.
     
• State Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands), an outspoken advocate for Dr. Bowden in her fight against the TMB, has said the agency's lack of oversight has been a “failure of the legislature.”

Two School Employees Jailed for Possessing Illicit Images of Children

• Erin Anderson reports that two employees of the Splendora Independent School District are each facing five felony charges after the pair were accused of possessing multiple images showing abuse of children.
      
• Anthony Jackson, 26, worked at the district's high school, and Isaac Silva, 29, worked at Peach Creek Elementary. The men appear to live together and have been placed on administrative leave. Each is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $500,000 bond.
      
• They were arrested on June 6 by Montgomery County Precinct 4 constables working with Texas Department of Public Safety investigators and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

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"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

– Thomas Paine​

Y'All Answered

The Biden administration recently unveiled a rewrite of Title IX. Originally designed to stop sex discrimination in education, the rewrite forces schools to allow biological males to use girls' spaces—such as locker rooms and bathrooms—or lose federal funding.

Gov. Greg Abbott has instructed the Texas Education Agency to oppose the Title IX rewrite, Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the administration, and some local school districts have announced they will ignore the federal dictate.

Yesterday, we asked readers if they thought opposing Title IX was worth losing federal education money and possibly drawing a federal lawsuit against local school districts. Of our readers, only 1.46 percent thought schools should follow federal dictates, while 98.54 percent believed that schools should protect students from the order.

Here's a sampling from the thousands of responses we received after folks clicked their survey answer...

• “We as citizens have to stand up for our children's and young adults' rights. Our young adults are worth more than the Federal money.
  We have to save them from such evil.” – Deanna Skoglun
      

• “As the mother of a former (graduated) collegiate female swimmer…. We must absolutely protect the girls.” – Dawn Gerstenberger
      

• “How can something so obvious (like sexual identity) be so controversial? Common sense is not common in our society. Ignore unjust laws and do what is right.” – Thomas Camardo
     

• “Yes, it is worth losing these funds if it protects children. The people promoting such nonsense are deranged, evil people.” – Molly Gail
      

• “It is unsafe and morally wrong to allow boys to use girls' showers and dressing areas, so we definitely need to ignore Biden’s program. Our schools will do better without federal funds and control.” – Sandi Stephens
     

• “The Federal government has taken away a right of the states by bribing the schools with education funds. They have set ‘standards’ that have slowly turned our public schools into indoctrination centers. It is time to take a stand and refuse their bribes. Texas is the state that needs to set an example for other states and bring morals and integrity back to our schools.” – Herbert Richards
      

• “In the 70s, we fought very hard for women’s equality in sports. Why allow a misguided and perverted policy to destroy this right?” – Angelika Hoeher
      

• “I remember when Title IX was passed.  All that hard work was useless if you let men compete with women. What was the point?” – Debra Davis
      

• “Tell the federal government to take their money and shove it!” – Fran Rhodes
      

• “The 9th and 10th amendments clearly forbid federal programs like Title IX specifically, and the federal Department of Education in general.  If the regulation is unconstitutional, and the department over the execution of said regulation is unconstitutional, then the re-write of the regulation must be unconstitutional.” – Chris Breaux
      

• “God's Word trumps federal law, y’all!” – Lillian Sheriff
      

• “The Texas schools should ignore everything Biden does.  He is not of sound mind.” – Nancy Wood
      

• “It's like candy: Nut / No Nuts. If they aren't an actual girl out of the womb, they have no business competing against women. Tell me again, who of us has a war on women?” – Rick Goncher
      

• “Funny how my parents were against Texas schools taking federal money back in the sixties. That slippery slope got us to where we are now. No wonder private and homeschooling is exploding.” – Belinda Stanley
      

• “Since the feds have lost all sense of rationale, we must step in and protect our children from the ‘inmates in charge of the asylum’!” – Priscilla Love
      

• “It is a scientific fact: males are bigger, stronger, and faster than females. That is why females are not demanding they be allowed to play against males. Title IX rewrite only applies to males who want to compete against females because they are inferior to other males.” – Steve Sullivan
      

• “It’s definitely time to stand up for what is right. If that means losing federal funding, so be it. More money is not going to solve our public school issues anyway. Money can’t buy respect, honor, discipline, integrity, grit, or a true thirst for knowledge.” – Karen Breazeale
      

• “At every possible opportunity, Texas must distance itself from the Federal behemoth.  Reject the ‘carrot’ of Federal funding because it always comes with the ‘stick’ of one-size-fits-all bad public policy.” – Steven Howell

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