Texas Governor Greg Abbott has responded strongly to criticism from the United Nations regarding the treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals in Texas, following a letter from LGBTQ+ groups to the UN. The letter accused Abbott and other state officials of infringing on the rights of LGBTQ Texans through various administrative and legislative actions, including laws that prevent transwomen from participating in female college sports teams and ban gender-affirming care for minors. Abbott's retort to the international body was to tell them to 'go pound sand', dismissing their concerns over what the groups described as a 'human rights crisis' due to 'systemic' discrimination in the state.
🇺🇸 ABBOTT SAYS UN CAN GO POUND SAND AFTER LGBT LAW COMPLAINT Activists wrote a letter to the UN suggesting Texas laws that stop transwomen from playing on female college sports teams and ban gender-affirming care to minors constitute discrimination. The letter to the U.N.… https://t.co/d6AOtpKZ5n
Texas’s attorney general is suing to revoke the state license of a Catholic migrant-aid center in El Paso. Leaders of such aid groups say they’re simply practicing their faith. https://t.co/asbPug277z
GREG ABBOTT SAYS UN CAN 'GO POUND SAND' AFTER LGBTQ+ BACKLASH (Newsweek) Texas Governor Greg Abbott had a blunt response to learning that LGBTQ+ groups have written to the United Nations to complain about suffering from "systemic" discrimination in the Lone Star state.… https://t.co/hUb29DS37M
Gov. Greg Abbott says United Nations can go 'pound sand' after Texas groups petition U.N. over LGBTQ ‘human rights crisis' https://t.co/pFeo45ayuJ
Responding to a letter sent to the United Nations accusing Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials of infringing on the rights of LGBTQ Texans through administrative and legislative actions, Abbott told the international nonprofit to stay out of it. https://t.co/mA46AqHRWJ https://t.co/KmIAWAp8jz
Greg Abbott says UN can "go pound sand" after LGBTQ+ backlash https://t.co/Brs1jrCkaA https://t.co/P0R3iyjDmu