Steve Toth

I had like 70 pieces of legislation.

But they sent it to Ken King's committee where Ken King killed the bill.

I had three members of his committee that became joint authors on the bill to stop the social transition of children.

And they never gave the bill a hearing.

I don't think they are.

I think they basically are against it.

But they compromise and say, the only way I can do good things for my people back home is if I maintain my chairmanship.

And the only way I can maintain my chairmanship is to cut a deal with Democrats.

And Democrats don't want this piece of legislation to pass.

And so they kill it.

They just kill it.

But we turned it into an amendment and we stuck it on a Senate Bill 12 at the end of session.

And now social transition of kids is illegal in the state of Texas.

Nice.

Here's the hard part about it is that we knew that we were going to try and pass it as an amendment.

And so I didn't make a big deal about it during session.

Because I didn't want the Democrats to blow it up.

I didn't want them to know that we're still going to try and put it on something.

So we just stayed kind of quiet.

quietly kept looking for the right bill to put it on, found it in Senate Bill 12.