Texas parents question origin of Trans & LGBTQ mailers, concerns rise <\/a><\/p>\nThe pamphlets suggest some children or teens consider filing emancipation, or a legal separation from their parents, to obtain care.<\/p>\n
Political scientists say they likely come from a conservative group trying to arouse anger in voters.<\/p>\n
“We’re in October in a highly competitive election season,” said UT San Antonio Political Science professor and department chair Jon Taylor. “It’s not surprising that you’re going to get this kind of mischief.”<\/p>\n
The mailers started arriving in mailboxes across Texas earlier this week. All of them come from a group calling itself the ‘Texas Transgender Student Union’. It’s an LLC out of Wyoming that didn’t exist roughly a month ago.<\/p>\n
The address on the pamphlet shows up online as a UPS store in Meadows Place, Texas. It’s just Southwest of Houston.<\/p>\n
“They’re taking advantage of Wyoming’s very… liberal, is that term, LLC laws that basically allow almost anybody to establish an LLC,” Taylor said.<\/p>\n
Those state laws keep the information private.<\/p>\n
According to online records, Taylor Newman is the organizer of the Texas Transgender Student Union. We tried giving calling that person but didn’t get an answer.<\/p>\n
“As an adult I know it’s fake,” said San Antonio mother Gabby Huizar. She also received a pamphlet. “However, does the child know it was fake?”<\/p>\n
She also said she felt the timing of the mail was suspicious.<\/p>\n
“You might say there are signs that suggest certain things, that politically it’s likely coming from a conservative organization that’s trying to ramp up at least Republican support,” Taylor said adding, under certain circumstances, this could be considered illegal.<\/p>\n
The Texas Tribune reports that West Texas District Attorney Sarah Stogner is investigating the pamphlets as forgery, which is a felony in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – We’re following the latest on who’s behind pamphlets offering students information about trans-related resources available…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-474304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474304","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=474304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}