Five stories that have North Texas talking: Mack Beggs joins fight against 鈥渂athroom bill鈥�; Dallas has a new police chief; that Spiral Diner pie in 鈥淎 Ghost Story鈥�; and more.
Mack Beggs, a transgender wrestler from North Texas, has joined a national LGBT rights organization to oppose the so-called "bathroom bill."
Beggs garnered attention for in February. He would have rather competed against male athletes, but state policy calls for students to wrestle against the gender listed on their birth certificates. State lawmakersthat would have led to the disqualification of transgender athletes, the Dallas Morning News reports, but were unsuccessful.
In a video released by Wednesday, Beggs urges Texas lawmakers not to pass a bill that would mandate transgender people to use bathrooms and other sex-segregated public facilities that correspond to their gender at birth.
Bills in the House and Senate died during the regular session, but there鈥檚 a chance for a revival of a 鈥渂athroom bill鈥� during the 30-day special session, which started Tuesday. [The Dallas Morning News, 四虎影院]
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- Dallas has named its : Renee Hall of the Detroit Police Department. She's expected to start in September. [四虎影院]
- Laura and Alex Laywell spend most of their days working with refugee kids in Dallas鈥� Vickery Meadow neighborhood. At night, they open their home to them. [四虎影院]
- There's a plan toacross the country, including one in Dallas. It's part of an effort to bring a professional cricket league to the U.S. by 2020. [DMN]
- Rooney Mara eats a vegan pie from Spiral Diner in a scene from Dallas director David Lowery鈥檚 new film, 鈥�.鈥� . [Fort Worth Star-Telegram]
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