Legislative Priorities Report for 6.25.21

Governor Abbott has called the first of at
least two highly anticipated Special Sessions, and it begins
Thursday, July 8. We know that redistricting cannot be addressed
until the census information comes back, so that will not be part
of this session.
From recent remarks made by the Governor, we
are anticipating that Election Integrity will be on the call,
along with bail reform, which was one of his priorities. He has
also indicated he wants protections for free speech on social
media and additional legislation curtailing Critical Race Theory
instruction in public schools.
As we have discussed in previous newsletters,
we have Republican Party of Texas priorities left unmet from the
Regular Session, so this presents an opportunity to accomplish
those. Of course, Election Integrity is a non-negotiable for us.
Our omnibus election bill, SB 7, was allowed to die by our
Republican leadership, aided and abetted by the Democrat walkout,
so that must be rectified.
As a reminder, while there were a few other
bills pertaining to elections passed in the Regular Session, of
the bills that met the priority language for Election Integrity,
only one made it to the Governor's desk.
None of the other issues the Governor is
indicating will be on this call are among our eight priorities.
However, there is one that is connected: the call to Ban Child
Gender Modification medical practices. Recently, there has been
an outcry from parents across the state -- justly so -- about the
proliferation of Critical Race Theory teaching in our public
schools. Parents are flocking to school board meetings, in great
numbers to protest this as it is simply Marxist indoctrination,
and parents are no longer ignorant that their children are being
propagandized.
CRT is related to child gender sex change
attempts in that it normalizes the myth that a child can
"transition" from one sex to the other and affirms disordered
feelings a child may have that he or she was "born in the wrong
body." So, we call on Governor Abbot to add the ban on Child
Gender Modification practices, that is, puberty blockers,
cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that remove healthy body parts
on minor children.
Surely the Governor is aware that Texas now
has over 16 pediatric gender clinics that offer these types of
procedures, and that there is a concerted effort to advance this
dangerous ideology. In fact, the governor's own Texas Health and
Human Services department has revised the form for creating your
child's birth certificate to include a third category under sex
besides "Male," or "Female." That category is "?." It is
inconceivable that a doctor would be so ignorant as to not being
able to tell parents the sex of a newborn baby, but our Texas
Health and Human Services department has apparently decided this
is the case. We hope Governor Abbott will rectify this horrendous
error.

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Since our legislature was unable to pass any
bill of the six filed last session to protect children from
sterilization and mutilating surgeries in an attempt to change
their sex, we are asking all Texans to call the Governor and ask
him to add this to the Special Session. We know that there is
bipartisan support on this issue. We do not sterilize adults
without their consent in this state, so how on earth can we allow
it to happen to children who are not capable of giving consent?

I have made an appeal to our churches to
please help us with this issue, and you can see a letter I have
written here. Action items are included, so please feel free to
send this to any pastor or religious leader who may be
interested.
Action items leading up to the Special
Session:
1. Call Governor Abbott at 512-463-2000 and
ask him to make sure Election Integrity bills are passed that are
robust and will insure accurate and fair elections.
2. Ask Governor Abbott to include bans on
Child Gender Modification along with bans on Critical Race
Theory.
3. If you need a template for a call or
email, along with talking points for Election Integrity or
banning Child Gender Modification, see our digital guide here.

Finally, the Legislative Priorities Committee
is working on a comprehensive report on the performance of our
legislators this past session. We have had many requests for such
a document, and we are committed to getting it to you as quickly
as possible. Thank you for being educated and engaged!

For God and Texas,






Jill Glover
SREC, SD 12
Chair, SREC Legislative Priorities Committee

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