Texas Governor Greg Abbott Bans
Abbott’s Ban
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a statewide ban on Pride flags in schools, declaring: “This is Texas, not TikTok.
And as long as I’m Governor, the only flags we recognize are the American flag, the Texas flag,
and that oversized Dallas Cowboys banner Jerry Jones sent me last Christmas.”
The Policy
Classrooms must remove rainbow symbols, replacing them with “real Texan symbols” like oil rigs and Ronald Reagan portraits.
Abbott also unveiled a “Wokeness Patrol” to stop rainbow displays.
“If a child draws a rainbow, they’ll immediately hand them a Texas-themed coloring sheet,” he explained.
Mixed Reactions
Parents split sharply—conservatives cheered while others called it political theater.
One mom said, “My son just wanted to wear a rainbow pin to show support for his sister.
Now the school says… they’ll replace it with a pin that says ‘Howdy.’”
Student Pushback
Teens staged walkouts, livestreaming protests with rainbow shoelaces and even an inflatable unicorn.
As one student put it: “If they ban flags, fine. We’ll just become the flags.”
