The Montrose Center, a taxpayer-supported non-profit in Houston that spends millions to advance the LGBT agenda, is hosting a drag show on March 31 to celebrate the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” It will be “open to all.”
The center confirmed to Texas Scorecard children are included.
In 2023, Texas passed a law prohibiting sexually explicit performances in the presence of minors. However, federal judge David Hittner, a Reagan appointee, ruled in favor of the American Civil Liberties Union, allowing drag queens to continue performing for children.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is currently considering an appeal by Attorney General Ken Paxton. The appeal asks the court to reverse Hittner’s ruling.
“It is incredibly sad that these vile performances continue to take place in Texas,” Brady Gray, president of Texas Family Project, told Texas Scorecard. “The celebration of ‘drag performances that give life’ is not only misguided but deeply heretical, seeking to distort God-given identities and expose children to ideologies that pervert, corrupt, and destroy lives.”
The Montrose Center claims to empower the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community by offering “services” to children as young as seven.
The non-profit currently offers castration medication, hormones, and gender mutilation surgery referrals for adults and actively advocates for these abusive treatments to be performed on minors.
Texas law prohibits doctors from prescribing cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers to and performing gender mutilation procedures on minor children.
After the Texas Supreme Court upheld Senate Bill 14, the law blocking these experimental procedures on minors, the Montrose Center wrote, “The Montrose Center firmly believes medical decisions should be between individuals, their families, and their medical providers. We believe in medical science, which supports gender-affirming care[.]”
The far-left NGO also operates a program called Hatch Youth that connects minors with LGBT “role models” and peer groups, and offers education programs on subjects like “queer sex ed” and social justice. The Hatch Jr. group targets children aged 7-12.
Hatch Youth operates a program called “Safe Zones,” in which counselors provide LGBT “therapeutic support” to students inside Houston ISD schools.
The Montrose Center has been in operation since 1978 and is taxpayer-supported.
