Once again, we were privileged to take our remote studio "on the road" and set up at the 2025 Katy Pride celebration.

Despite some last minute drama, caused by so-called "family values" groups making veiled threats against the venue with whom the Katy Pride organization had had a contract for some six months, the heroes on the Katy Pride board pulled off a major miracle. Typhoon Texas, the original venue, cancelled the event, with less than three days notice, citing vague worries about "violence", and this despite local law enforcement stating that they had "no credible threat". Helping to pull off the miracle, was Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner, Lesley Briones, who, we understand, arranged for the use of the Bear Creek Rodeo Arena for the event.

Trans Truth, along with all of the organizers, vendors, performers and patrons, is profoundly grateful for Commissioner Briones' bold leadership.

Straight up... I apologize for the way unoriginal title of this episode, but I decided to stick with it because I can not get away from the current goings on and those in 1930's Germany - concentration camps for "undesirables", including minorities of all kinds, political opponents, even journalists. We are seeing political assassination, paramilitary organizations deployed as terror troops against our own communities.

News Links:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/transgender-bathroom-bill-added-texas-flood-relief-special-session-rcna218897

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-subpoenas-20-doctors-clinics-provide-trans-care-minors-rcna218141https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-anti-trans-speakers-at-ftc-workshop-on-transgender-medical-care/

https://www.thecardiologyadvisor.com/features/lgbtq-health-care-future/https://edsource.org/updates/california-rejects-trump-administration-demand-to-ban-transgender-athleteshttps://transtruth.info/images/NaziBookBurning.jpghttps://www.tiktok.com/@alysonwelborn/video/7496941695179885870

In keeping with our "expanded focus" on all human rights, Jeri Ann put together this episode she calls "Christian Nationalism". Apparently, we were both educated at a time when "civics" or "social studies" classes taught things like how are nation came to be, and how our system of law and government came to be. And we have both been alarmed at the rise in influence of the so-called Christian Nationalist movement. Things like the state of Texas now requiring The Ten Commandments to be posted in every school in the state have us deeply concerned about this movement that wants to turn our system of law and government into a theocracy.

News Links:

https://apnews.com/article/what-happened-ice-raid-la-macarthur-park-cc04479ed94ed68d11acf807d97914e6https://www.advocate.com/politics/bipartisan-effort-lgbtq-988-linehttps://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/stop-legitimizing-pseudoscience-marginalize-trans-peoplehttps://southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/06/25/transgender-rights-group-aims-to-expand-activist-founded-database-of-lgbtq-friendly-businesses/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/558/https://folklife.si.edu/talkstory/2016/are-you-a-friend-of-dorothy-folk-speech-of-the-lgbt-communityhttps://www.out.com/news/hetero-awesome-fest-idaho-racism#rebelltitem1