Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
Abbott signs law banning trans youth from sports
Gov. Greg Abbott It only took him all of the 2021 regular session of the Texas Legislature and three special sessions, but Gov.
Greg Abbott on Monday, Oct. 25, finally got to sign into law a measure prohibiting transgender youth from playing sports in public schools on teams aligned with their gender identity.
The new law, set to go into effect on Jan. 18, closes a loophole in UIL rules, which require students to compete in UIL sports according to the gender on their birth certificates but which do recognize birth certificates on which the gender markers have been legally changed.
Abbott’s new law recognizes only the gender assigned to a child on their original birth certificate. Abbott and others on the right-wing edge of the GOP spent
