Texas ‘bathroom bill’ may shape 2018 GOP primary campaigns

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Transgender “bathroom bills” have fizzled in deep-red states across America, but the issue is still white hot in Texas.
The Republican-controlled Legislature is heading into a special session prepared to revive a bill requiring transgender people to use public restrooms according to their birth-certificate gender.
Conservative groups are vowing revenge during the 2018 GOP primaries against Republicans who don’t support it.
But whether or not Texas eve