In recent years, lawmakers in several states have made birth certificates more accessible. Texas should do the same this session.
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Texas: TXARC Statement and Action Alert on HB2725
The Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition continues to advocate for passage of HB2725 as it is currently written and as reported favorably from the Public Health committee, without discriminatory amendments. Our work is difficult because of amendments that have already been drafted and presented to legislative staff and legislators. We will not throw up our hands and accept a legislative outcome that may include inequality. Discriminatory amendments are intentional and planned, and our focus is, has, and will always be equality for all Texas adult adopted people.
Continue readingTexas HB2725 and Sub Bill are dead
We are happy to say that HB2725, the good- bill-gone-bad, is dead. Officially dead. Our sources in the Texas Statehouse informed us late last week that a deformed substitute HB2725 was being prepared to be …
Continue readingTexas: HB2725 clean access bill introduced! Help us win Texas!
Last week Texas Representative Gina Calanni introduced HB2725, a bill to restore the right of OBC access to all Texas adoptees with no restrictions or conditions. Bastard Nation, as an indidvidual organization, and as a founding member of the Texas Coalition for Adoptee Rights supports this bill whole-heartedly.
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The Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition has announced it has drafted a clean unrestricted bill that will be introduced in the Texas legislature soon.
Continue readingAnnouncement: Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition
Texas has a brand new adoptee civil rights organization: the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition—and Bastard Nation is proud to be a member.
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