{"id":473242,"date":"2026-10-22T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:46:11","slug":"park-cities-homes-receive-texas-trans-lgbtq-guide-tied-to-wyoming-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473242\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Cities Homes Receive &#8216;Texas Trans &#038; LGBTQ+&#8217; Guide Tied to Wyoming Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Park Cities residents have received a\u00a0Texas Trans &amp; LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide\u00a0that was purportedly sent by a Texas transgender advocacy group, but which is actually linked to a company based in Wyoming, according to multiple news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The mailers claim to be from the Texas Transgender Student Union and reference the Transgender Education Network of Texas, or TENT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Texas Transgender Student Union is not a Texas transgender rights organization. It\u2019s an LLC that was formed last month in Wyoming, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/10\/20\/texas-transgender-pamphlets-tent-student-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Texas Tribune<\/a> and Texas Observer reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stevanzetti\/status\/2112589041824587779?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Steven Monacelli<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TENT, which is a real organization that supports Trans Texans, has denied any association with the mailers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/transtexas.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">stated that their contents do not reflect its official position or communications<\/a>. The group has faced threats of violence due to the circulation of the pamphlets and similar texts, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/10\/20\/texas-transgender-pamphlets-tent-student-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlets, which are addressed to the \u201cstudents of\u201d a family, advise readers on what to do if their families do not support their choices and on how to become emancipated from their parents. It includes information on legal organizations that can help arrange out-of-state care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are other kids in Texas going through this too \u2014 and there are adults whose actual job is to help you,\u201d the pamphlets say. \u201cEven if your family doesn\u2019t accept you as you are, groups like these are ready to become your found family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pamphlets include information about a \u201cTrans Texas Takeover\u201d from TENT. But visiting the provided web address takes readers to a TENT webpage which states that \u201ctext messages and mailers were not authored, authorized, approved, or distributed by TENT and are not affiliated with our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A linked webpage further states that \u201cTENT has filed an official cease and desist to the text platforms that disseminated the text messages, and is working on the next steps to address the fraudulent physical mailers that were sent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>          Author<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"o-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SarahHodges_BWnew-768x722-1-150x150.webp\" alt=\"Sarah Hodges\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          Sarah Hodges<\/p>\n<p>  <a class=\"o-link o-link--secondary c-writer-detail__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplenewspapers.com\/writers\/sarah-hodges\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n              View Profile<\/p>\n<p>      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    Sarah Hodges is editor of People Newspapers. She wrote for\u00a0The Kansas City Star, served in the Peace Corps, worked as a law firm associate, and spent more than a decade caring for her children as a stay-at-home parent prior to joining\u00a0Park Cities People\u00a0as managing editor in 2024. In her spare time, you can find her running, either around the neighborhood or to various kid activities.\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Park Cities residents have received a\u00a0Texas Trans &amp; LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide\u00a0that was purportedly sent by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-473242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}