One of the really upsetting things about police and news media misgendering transgender murder victims is that we often miss the news entirely.

Austin transgender woman Christi Long has supported herself by working as a drag queen known as Christi Foxx Paris. Last Sunday she was raped and beaten with a hammer after she refused to have sex with a man she thought was a friend.

I can’t help feeling that – because I’m trans, I’m less valuable.

--Long

With the anti-transgender SB 6 stuck in the mud in the Texas House, Rep. Ron Simmons of Carollton has taken a cue from the North Carolina "compromise" and introduced HB 2899, which would prohibit cities and counties from passing non-discrimination ordinances which extend rights beyond what is protected by state law. The bill would also nullify all local non-discrimination laws already in place.

'Tis the season, I guess.

I'm not necessarily endorsing any of these candidates. Rather I am just spreading the word.

Kristin Browde is running for town supervisor in New Castle, Westchester County, NY.

That is something everyone can agree on. Just exactly what that evil was is what we disagree on.

This morning SB 6, which is HB 2 reincarnated and beamed over from North Carolina, was passed by the Texas Senate Affairs Committee by a vote on 8-1. That followed testimony on Tuesday of over 250 people which lasted more than 13 hours. There were 253 witnesses who testified against SB6 and 29 who testified in favor of it.

New Hope, TX has a population of 670 with 640 registered voters. The Collin County town is in one of the most conservative suburban parts of Texas, situated 40 miles northeast of Dallas. Jess Herbst had been elected as an alderman after previously being the road commissioner.

I wrote about the US Transgender Survey conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality in early December.

Turns out there were enough respondents from Texas (nearly 1500) to glean some Texas-specific data.

Author Rick Riordan was born in San Antonio and graduated from the University of Texas. He is noted as the writer of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series of books for children and young adults. As such Riordan was invited to the Texas Legislature's celebration of authors event.

Mr. Riordan has declined the invitation.

Interesting thing happened at the Dripping Springs ISD board meeting on Monday. A petition with 529 signatures was submitted to the school board in support of a transgender 3rd grader who attends Walnut Springs Elementary School.