A Texas Democratic state politician is switching to the Republican Party for the remaining four months of his term.
After losing his primary election for supporting a Republican-sponsored bill that would have protected minors from sex-reassignment surgery, state Rep. Sean Thierry issued a statement on social media on Friday accusing Democrats of rushing into the “abyss of progressivism.”
“The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left, so far into the abyss of progressivism, that it now supports policies that I cannot in good conscience support, such as promoting the sex reassignment of children at a vulnerable time in their lives and eliminating Title IX protections for women in sports,” Thierry wrote.
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Texas Rep. Sean Thierry campaigned with African-American pastors in Houston’s Sunnyside Park. Thierry lost a Democratic primary runoff election earlier this year after breaking with his party over access to sex-reassignment surgery for minors. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
Thierry said he had gone against the party’s values and would serve out his remaining months in office as a Republican.
“I now support the party of Lincoln, the party that fought to protect the Union and fought to end the atrocities of slavery,” she added.
Thierry lost to primary candidate Lauren Ashley Simmons in a runoff election in May.
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A big part of her failure within the Democratic Party is seen as her support for a 2023 Republican bill that would ban gender reassignment for minors.
“Mothers of all backgrounds, races and communities across our nation understand that it is our sacred duty to preserve our children’s innocence and protect them from sexual objectification and sterilization,” Thierry wrote, “to respect universal truths and to defend the rights of biological women as defined by science, nature and common sense.”
Lauren Ashley Simmons, candidate for State House District 146, who defeated Thierry in the Democratic runoff election in May, spoke with Equality Texas volunteers and union members before heading out door-to-door in Houston in the afternoon. (Yi-Ching Li/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
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“I am not alone. I stand with millions of brave women and men of conscience who put people above politics,” she concluded.
