NEWS FLASH

Texas A&M Deemed Unsafe For Third Annual Transgender Summit | In April, the Texas A&M Student Senate “voted to support a budget amendment by State Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, that would have required schools with LGBT resource centers to equally fund centers for ‘family and traditional values.’” The effort was ultimately defeated, but the scars remain. John Wright of the Dallas Voice reports that organizers of the third annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit are now moving their conference — which was supposed to take place at Texas A&M University in August — to the University of Houston to protect “the safety for the participants.”