Transgender Texans Turn Out by the Dozens to Oppose ‘bathroom Bill'

AUSTIN — José Menéndez didn't know he was looking at a transgender man.Ethan Avanzino had been given two minutes to voice his opposition to the so-called "bathroom bills" to the senators sitting before him. The legislation they were debating, which would restrict the bathrooms available for use to transgender people, is discriminatory, Avanzino said, and put the trans community in danger.He believes that, he ended, because he's "a transgender man of faith who transitioned on the job while living in corporate America."  Continue reading...