It’s nice to see a politician acting on principle for once.
Shawn Thierry represents House District 146 in the Texas state legislature. While she lost her primary election in May, she has been a Democrat – until recently. Now she has switched to the GOP for her last few months in office, citing the discussion over a Texas bill banning “gender-affirming” care for minors as her reason for leaving the Democratic Party:
State Rep. Shawn Thierry published a statement to social media on Friday decrying the Democratic Party’s march into the “progressive abyss” after she lost her primary for supporting a GOP-led bill protecting minors from gender transition procedures.
“The Democratic Party has veered so far left, so deep into the progressive abyss, that it now champions policies that I cannot, in good conscience, support — policies like promoting sex changes for children during a…
