Texas flushes transgender bathroom bill for 2019.

Protesters chant in the hall as Lt. Governor Dan Patrtick announces legislation by Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) concerning bathroom access rules in Texas on January 5, 2017. >>The most important issues facing the Texas Legislature in 2019. (Photo: Tom Reel, Staff / San Antonio Express-News)

In 2017, one of the most talked about bills in Texas would have required transgender people to use bathrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates, spurring a flood of protests at the capitol as civil rights groups…