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A Democrat judge in Dallas is letting a woman medically change her son into a girl. What do you think of that? Should that even be legal? Sound off in today’s One Click Survey.

But first, here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Tuesday, September 1, 2020
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• Texas DSHS numbers about the Chinese coronavirus “aren’t right, they aren’t real, and they shouldn’t be used to determine public health policy.” That’s the assertion of Republican Chris Hill, Collin County’s senior elected official. County Judge Hill is frustrated the state is still using data to set public policy in Texas after a “fix” by state health officials failed to clarify active case numbers. Erin Anderson has the story.
      
• As the head of the Collin County Commissioners Court, Hill has been raising concerns about the state’s data reporting since the Texas Department of State Health Services took over tracking and reporting Collin County’s coronavirus cases on June 1.
     
• After Hill and the commissioners court called out the state’s bad data and pushed the agency to fix its “significantly overstated” active case counts, DSHS revised Collin County’s active COVID-19 case count last week—from 4,736 to just 81.
   
• “Do they really know how many COVID-19 cases there are in the rest of the state?” – Collin County Judge Chris Hill

• Grassroots activists in North Texas are calling on their fellow Texans to protect children from forced gender modification. Robert Montoya reports the issue has come to the forefront after a Democrat judge in Dallas County gave the mother of a young boy permission to medically transition him into a girl despite objections from the boy’s father.
      
• Legislators could have addressed the issue in 2019, but Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick refused to make it a priority.

• Taxpayers in the Amarillo area can expect to pay more in property taxes during the upcoming fiscal year, reports Thomas Warren. The Panhandle Groundwater District and Canyon Independent School District recently approved tax rates that will generate more revenue from property owners.
      
• The City of Amarillo is now mulling a tax burden increase; citizens can voice their concerns during in-person hearings on September 8 and 15 at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza. If you don’t show up, you pay for the government you tolerate...
      
• No Matter Where You Live: if your local government adopts a tax rate higher than the new, statutorily defined “No New Revenue” rate, you and your neighbors’ taxes are going up.
    
• How can you know? Call your city, school, county, and other local officials and ask them this question: “Have you and your colleagues adopted a tax rate at or under the state’s No New Revenue tax rate?”

• Black communities around the United States want better interactions with law enforcement, not the abolition of police departments.
      
• That’s the assertion of Urban Reform’s Charles Blain, who backs it up with polling and survey data from across the nation in a new commentary.
      
• “Progressives and radicals don’t understand, or don’t care, that black neighborhoods need the police.” – Charles Blain

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