Austin film director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, School of Rock, Before Sunset, Bad News Bears (2005), Fast Food Nation, Before Midnight, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some!!) has created a public service announcement opposing SB 6. You can help out at ipeewithlgbt.com

Linklater, the Academy Award-nominated director of Boyhood directed the ad for the ACLU of Texas and Legacy Community Health, a nonprofit health center with 22 clinics in Southeast Texas.

Disguised as a safety issue, the Texas Privacy Act, also known as SB6, seeks to ban transgender individuals from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

It is and always will be illegal to harm or harass someone in a restroom. There has been no increase in public safety incidents in Texas cities that currently allow people to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

Passing the bill would harm Texas business to the tune of billions of dollars. Just ask North Carolina.

A bathroom is not where women and children are at risk. Where our public bathrooms are concerned, transgender people are the real targets: 70% of transgender men and women report having been verbally or physically attacked while using a restroom.