New Podcast Explores How One Texas Town's Anti-Trans Movement Became a Template for Cities Across the U.S.

Reporter was hundreds of miles away from Grapevine, Texas, when he first determined that it would be central to his journalistic work. Standing in ...

October 5, 2023
4:42 AM

Reporter was hundreds of miles away from Grapevine, Texas, when he first determined that it would be central to his journalistic work. Standing in his Houston kitchen, cleaning dishes and putting his child to bed, Hixenbaugh had been listening to a Grapevine-Colleyville school board meeting via his AirPods when he heard something shocking. A mother from the city of Grapevine took the microphone before the crowded meeting to tell attendees that she had "lost her son" because of a queer teacher.

Virginia Chamlee