Trans Texans Are Under Attack (Again), but Advocates Aren’t Giving In

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Trans Texans Are Under Attack (Again), but Advocates Aren’t Giving In

When Emmett Schelling first moved to Texas, it wasn’t to become an advocate. It was for a corporate job.  He began volunteering with the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT) at a time when a so-called “bathroom bill,” which would have mandated people use the bathroom of their biological sex, was still just an idea. When the bathroom bill became a fully formed piece of legislation that consumed the 2017 session, its existence made Schell…