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.
Opening the door to discrimination
Gov. Abbott’s social worker rule change threatens our lives LGBTQ Texans, those living with a disability and those living at the intersections of LGBTQ identity and living with disability are outraged, and rightfully so.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has once again cast our communities aside by singling us out for exclusion and differential treatment.
To make matters worse, Gov. Abbott has done this at the height of a public health crisis when we are more vulnerable and the services upon which we rely for our daily needs are all the more precarious.
put, there is no doubt that this unfair and unequal treatment threatens our very lives. On Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council and the Texas State Board of Social
