The Villians of 2024
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Paxton This is definitely not an all-encompassing, exhaustive list of the villains who have plagued the LGBTQ community.
We know there are plenty of others. But these are the ones who rose to the top of the villainous heap. Ken PaxtonThere was no bigger villain for the LGBTQ community in 2024 than Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Paxton turned his attention toward targeting the community, especially transgender Texans early in the year, using the power of the Office of the Attorney General as a weapon against them.
In late January, just days before attorneys for plaintiffs — including PFLAG — challenging Texas’ Senate Bill 14, the 2023 law banning gender-affirming care for trans minors, were to argue their case before the Texas Supreme Court, news broke that Paxton had requested private medical information about Texas youth who received gender-affirming health care from a Georgia-based telehealth clinic.
