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Protect Trans Lives

Floor Speech

Date: June 4, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. MENEFEE. Mr. Speaker, June is Pride Month, a month celebrating the contributions of the LGBTQ community, but it also must be a month of speaking hard truths.

Texas has more anti-trans murders than any other State in the Nation. Over half of Texas victims are Black transgender women.

We cannot celebrate Marsha P. Johnson and not protect the women who look like her.

Last week, Persia Amarra Conway was killed in Houston. She was 33 years old. She was loved, and she is not alone. Jade Roberts, Diamond Brigman, Muhlaysia Booker, name after name after name, were all from Texas, all taken from this Earth, stripped from their loved ones and from their communities.

These killings are happening across our country, and silence is not an option. This Pride Month, I say clearly: We must stop the targeting and killing of members of the trans community in Houston, in Texas, and across our Nation.

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