Rep. Jeff Leach took the fake-name joke in stride, saying if being burnt is what it takes to remind people we can still 'laugh and joke together' he was okay with it. 'I look forward to meeting Connie, Holden and Anita one day soon,' he said.
by trans rights advocate Erin Reed shows how the Texas House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence was temporarily derailed as the chair called a series of clearly fake names for public comment after hearing a teacher criticize the anti-trans proposed legislation.Jeff Leach pictured in 2018 at the LBJ Future Forum. Leach was pranked during a House committee hearing on Wednesday.
A similar prank occurred at the Florida House last month, when the state's Republican Rep. Will Robinson Jr. called out for"Anita Dick" and"Holden Hiscock." Texas is one of the GOP-led states where Republican lawmakers have recently pushed a growing wave of anti-LGBT and anti-transgender bills, which often target trans youths specifically by restricting their access to gender-affirming care, bathrooms and school sports teams.
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