Texas Bills Seek to Protect Children from Drag Performances, Sex Change Procedures

Texas Bills Seek to Protect Children from Drag Performances, Sex Change Procedures
School children wearing masks walk outside Condit Elementary School in Bellaire, Texas, in Dec. 16, 2020. Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images
Caden Pearson
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Texas Republicans this week pre-filed a slate of bills to pursue at the next state legislative session in January that seek to prevent children from seeing drag shows and would classify sex-change procedures for minors as child abuse.

State Rep. Jared Patterson (R-Frisco) on Nov. 14 filed HB643, which seeks to reclassify businesses that permit drag performances as “sexually oriented” businesses under Texas Local Government Code.
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