Texas Governor Greg Abbott Wants to "End" Trans People Being Allowed to Teach in Texas

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott Wants to "End" Trans People Being Allowed to Teach in Texas
Abbott was speaking at a convention for the Young Conservatives of Texas when he made the statement, audio of which was later shared on X.
BY MATHEW RODRIGUEZ
April 22, 2024

The right continues to make the classroom a battleground for trans rights.

While speaking to a group of young conservatives on Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told attendees that he would like to limit the expression of transgender teachers in the classroom, according to audio shared online by Texas Observer reporter Steven Monacelli. To make his point, Abbott told attendees at the Young Conservatives of Texas convention a story about a teacher in Lewisville, Texas, who Abbott described as a “man who would go to school dressed as a woman in a dress, high heels, and makeup.”

Abbott appears to be referring to Rachmad Tjachyadi, who was a beloved teacher at Hebron High School in Lewisville, but resigned in March after being targeted online by Libs of TikTok for wearing a dress to a school spirit event. An investigation by the Lewisville Independent School District determined that Tjachyadi had not violated any district policies. But the science teacher resigned anyway, citing as a reason the “hateful comments” he received after the Libs of TikTok post and its subsequent backlash.

In his remarks, which misconstrued the situation surrounding Tjachyadi, Abbott continued, “What do you think is going through the mind of the students that’s in that classroom?,” he pondered out loud. “Are they focusing on the subject that this person is trying to teach?” After posing this hypothetical, Abbott said, “I don’t know.”

He then added, “What I do know are these two things: One is this person, a man, dressing as a woman, in a public high school in the state of Texas, he’s trying to normalize the concept that this type of behavior is OK. This type of behavior is not OK, and this is the type of behavior that we want to make sure we end in the state of Texas.”

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[wolfie001]

1. What a hateful cabal he leads

Shame on every texan who ever voted for that nasty F.

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2. Since I was an adolescent in the 1960's I've wondered why it shouldn't be a simple matter...

of equality. If a male can wear a polo shirt and pants to school, why can't a female? If a female can wear a skirt to school, why can't a male? At the beginning of the school year in Texas it is HOT, and I envied young women their cooler apparel. If we couldn't wear skirts to beet the heat, why not shorts? Same with hair. Why could girls have long hair but not guys? To me, it demonstrated nothing less than a lie of equality, and arbitrary hypocrisy. Little has changed in 60+ years, especially in Texas.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. They should take a cue from a school in Japan.

I read that the school was being really strict about boys wearing shorts to school. They banned shorts in their dress code, but they did allow skirts for the females. The code said nothing about who could or could not wear the skirts. So, the boys all wore skirts to school. There was nothing the school could do about it, as their own regulations said wearing them was acceptable and they did not specify a gender in that rule. Now, I am not talking about a few boys, I mean most of the entire school of males wore them, and as I understand it, they finally changed the rule to allow boys to wear shorts when the weather is warm.

I know the school where I used to work had the same thing come up and fortunately the parents raised holy hell about it. Suffice to say, it was finally discovered that it was two administration people who had decided that they wanted boys to always wear long pants because it 'looked better'. I love the one parent who said to me, "So, my child would look really nice for two people when he is loaded into the ambulance for heat stroke?" I just nodded my head.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. That's okay, plenty of decent people want to 'end' Greg Abbott! (n/t)