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Amber Briggle

Mother and business owner

Amber Briggle is a "mama bear," trans-rights advocate and business owner in Denton. She is a national board member of the Human Rights Campaign's Parents for Transgender Equality and a state board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas.

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A mother writes: Dear Speaker Straus

I haven’t really spent much time tracking legislation before; I guess I’ve never really had to. But I started paying attention to what y’all were doing down in Austin the year that I finally accepted that my child was transgender. And what I found, Speaker Straus, is that there was an awful lot happening under that pink dome that could quite possibly kill him.