Bill Text: TX HR265 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Commending Alicia Roth Weigel for her service to the LGBTQIA+ communities of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-20 - Reported enrolled [HR265 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR265-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Commending Alicia Roth Weigel for her service to the LGBTQIA+ communities of Texas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-20 - Reported enrolled [HR265 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR265-Introduced.html
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By: González of El Paso | H.R. No. 265 |
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WHEREAS, Alicia Roth Weigel has been a leader in the fight for | ||
social justice for members of the LGBTQIA+ communities in Texas, | ||
and her efforts have made a positive difference in numerous lives; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, A member of the City of Austin's Human Rights | ||
Commission, Ms. Weigel works with her colleagues to ensure that | ||
area residents are free from discrimination on the basis of race, | ||
disability, religion, national origin, gender, sex, or age; the | ||
commission provides valuable advice on such matters and assists in | ||
developing nondiscrimination policies, investigating complaints, | ||
and conducting educational programs; and | ||
WHEREAS, Ms. Weigel is an eloquent champion of the rights and | ||
well-being of intersex people; her advocacy was instrumental in the | ||
Austin City Council's proclamation of October 26, 2019, as Intersex | ||
Awareness Day, and she is spearheading the drive for Austin to | ||
become the first city in the South to adopt an intersex protective | ||
policy condemning nonconsensual and medically unnecessary | ||
surgeries on intersex kids and implementing a public education | ||
campaign on intersex health care; and | ||
WHEREAS, A graduate of Cornell University, Ms. Weigel helped | ||
launch Deeds Not Words, a progressive women's leadership | ||
organization, in 2016; as its strategy and communications director, | ||
and then as its policy and advocacy director, she traveled the | ||
country to speak at conferences, conduct corporate workshops in | ||
gender equity, and train young people in legislative advocacy; she | ||
went on to become an advocacy strategist for interACT, a nonprofit | ||
organization that promotes the legal and human rights of intersex | ||
children; in addition, she managed the campaign of the first openly | ||
transgender woman candidate for Austin's city council; she received | ||
the 2019 Ceci Gratias Guardian Award from the Austin LGBT Chamber of | ||
Commerce; and | ||
WHEREAS, Through her tireless endeavors, Alicia Weigel has | ||
helped further inclusion and equality in the Lone Star State, and | ||
she may indeed reflect with pride on her outstanding contributions; | ||
now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas | ||
Legislature, 3rd Called Session, hereby commend Alicia Roth Weigel | ||
for her service to the LGBTQIA+ communities of Texas and extend to | ||
her sincere best wishes for continued success in her important | ||
work; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Ms. Weigel as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. |