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This week’s One Click Survey tackles the most pressing of public debates each Thanksgiving. Answer that, but also let your fellow readers know what YOU are most thankful for this year.

Here is the Texas Minute for Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

But First…

• With apologies, yesterday’s Texas Minute listed the wrong “last day” for ticket sales. You still have time to get your ticket for the Dec. 3, 2022, Conservative Leader Awards dinner; I apologize for the confusion! Get all the details and buy your ticket today.

Targeting Children

• Texas Scorecard has launched a new investigative series that examines the risks surgical mutilation and hormone manipulation pose to minors, exposes the deep state actors, activist lawyers, and politicized professionals in Texas that support these abusive medical procedures. The series also discusses what citizens can do to protect children in the Lone Star State.
      
• In the first installment, Robert Montoya examines the rapidly growing movement aggressively promoting the surgical mutilation and hormonal manipulation of bodies to give the appearance of changing genders. In Texas, children are being aggressively targeted even as the tide is shifting against the practice elsewhere in the Western world.
      
• A 2021 white paper on transgender trends reports that since 2014 there has been a steady rise of men and women who experience buyer’s remorse after opting for these procedures. A growing number of people wish they hadn’t bought the misleading hope advertised to them as the solution for their emotional struggles.
       
• But for medical practitioners, gender surgeries are big business – with very little concern for the long-term effects on the patients.
      
• Dr. Andre Van Mol told Texas Scorecard that greed is a driving force of these abusive medical procedures. “Once you’ve medicalized somebody, they’re medicalized for the rest of their life. They will never stop needing those cross sex hormones. They will never quit needing treatment for those possible complications that come with it.”

UTA: Antifa Thugs OK, Protecting Kids Bad

• The conservative campus group Turning Point USA’s chapter at the University of Texas at Arlington recently hosted an event on children being forced into gender mutilation surgeries. The organization received backlash leading up to the event and is still being attacked by Democrat activists and left-leaning UTA officials. 
     
• Younger’s lecture was a discussion about the ramifications and disturbing nature of child gender mutilation.
     
• Soli Rice reports UTA officials were quick to attack Younger’s presence on campus, but they refused to condemn thuggish and armed antifa members there to intimidate TPUSA.

Lawmaker Files Measures To Protect Women’s Sports

• State Rep. Valoree Swanson (R–Spring) has filed legislation to extend Texas’ current prohibition on boys participating in girls’ sports to college athletics. Darrell Frost has the details.
      
• In 2021, Swanson successfully authored legislation that passed into law restricting participation in public school sports to students whose biological gender is the same as that for which a sport is designated. The newly filed House Bill 23 would apply that restriction to Texas’ public colleges and universities as well as the private schools that compete with them.
     
• The controversy over biological men participating in women’s sports has erupted in recent years, and it was thrust into the national spotlight this year when University of Pennsylvania “transgender” swimmer William Thomas (who now goes by Lia) consistently dominated his female competition and won the NCAA Division I women’s national championship in the 500-yard freestyle event.

Legislation Filed To Ban ‘All-ages’ Drag Shows

• Under legislation filed by Republican State Reps. Jared Patterson (Frisco) and Matt Shaheen (Plano), locations that host drag shows will be listed as “sexually oriented” businesses – thereby preventing children from entering.
       
• State law currently prohibits parents from letting their children enter sexually oriented businesses. 
       
• “We aren’t saying you can’t have drag shows,” explained Patterson. “We are saying that if you do, you should be treated as a sexually oriented business. No child should be subjected to these types of businesses.”

School Official Caught Using District Plane for Family Trip

• Yes, a school district plane.
   
• Granbury Independent School District Assistant Superintendent Jimmy Dawson was caught using a district-owned airplane for personal travel, a potential violation of the state’s code of ethics for educators. He was joined on the trip by his wife, Leah Dawson, who is also an administrator in the district and was promoted in June. Erin Anderson has the details.
     
• Even though it is defending Dawson’s personal use of the district’s plane, Granbury ISD said it “tightened flight protocols and strengthened flight documentation effective September 2022”… after Dawson was caught.

What Are You Thankful For This Year?

• Whether you have an opinion on today’s One Click Survey or not, hit reply to share with your fellow readers (in as few words as possible!) what you’re most thankful for this year. 

ONE CLICK SURVEY

In the traditional Thanksgiving meal, the turkey is served with a number of side dishes. What do you call the bread-based accompaniment…

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