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.
The not-so-big tent
Log Cabin Republicans join mainstream transphobic GOP once again on LGBTQ rights issue It’s a rare day that I found myself yelling at the radio, but today was that day.
My usual morning companion on my drive to my office is our local Public Radio affiliate. I tuned in today just as a story hit the air about a “local LGBT group supporting Gov.
Greg Abbott’s call for gender affirming therapy to be considered child abuse. I didn’t even have to hear the rest of the story; I knew it was the Log Cabin Republicans, a group which claims to be LGBTQ but is little more than Republican men who have sex with men.
They are doing their best to derail any reforms that benefit any letters in LGBTQ — save the “G” of course. Their statement is meant to bow and scrape to the Texas Republican Party, which consistently refuses to allow the group to participate with booths at official events.
