{"id":10902,"date":"2024-05-30T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2024-05-30T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T11:59:36","slug":"democrats-oust-black-woman-lawmaker-over-trans-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10902","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Oust Black Woman Lawmaker Over Trans Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/05\/30\/democrats-oust-black-woman-lawmaker-over-trans-issue\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-oust-black-woman-lawmaker-over-trans-issue<\/a><\/p>\n

The Alphabet Mafia is making it clear to Democrats who stray from the current orthodoxy. They will be purged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Texas Democratic lawmaker who broke with her party by supporting a ban on gender-affirming care for minors was ousted in a primary runoff that galvanized LGBTQ+ groups nationwide who then campaigned for her opponent in the race for the south Houston seat.<\/p>\n

Rep.\u00a0<span class="caas-xray-inline-tooltip wafer-destroyed wafer-loader-success" data-wf-template-id="caas-xray-inline-wafer-tooltip-template-with-close-d1850038-978c-3563-85d3-d1c5b2a3596d" data-wf-local-storage-key="xray-inline-tooltip" data-wf-tooltip-text="Get info without
leaving the page.” data-wf-tooltip-position=”bottom” data-wf-reset-every=”90″>Shawn Thierry<\/a><\/span>\u2018s defeat followed four terms in which the Houston lawmaker typically joined her fellow Democrats on major issues, including voting against\u00a0aggressive immigration measures<\/a>\u00a0demanded by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and\u00a0a ban on diversity programs on college campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But she outraged Democratic colleagues when she gave a 12-minute speech on the Texas House floor last year defending a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Three other Democrats also voted for the measure, but none were as vocal as Thierry, who lost by double-digits Tuesday night to challenger Lauren Ashley Simmons, a union organizer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer vote was why she had a race, but when she doubled down and went really down the rabbit hole of misinformation, it energized folks in the LGBTQ community,\u201d said former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, the president and CEO of the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, which supported Simmons\u2019 bid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/05\/30\/democrats-oust-black-woman-lawmaker-over-trans-issue\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=democrats-oust-black-woman-lawmaker-over-trans-issue The Alphabet Mafia is making it clear to Democrats…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10903,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10902\/revisions\/10903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}