Texas Gov Gets Anti-Trans Bill Changing Birth Records

The Texas Tribune reports:

In the middle of the night, the Texas Senate approved a bill strictly defining man and woman based on reproductive organs on a 20-11 party line vote. The bill has already passed the House and will go now to the governor’s desk. House Bill 229 says a woman is an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova, while a man is someone whose reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova.

The bill would require that this definition be used across state statute, with potentially wide-ranging consequences for trans and intersex people who would see their gender identity reverted back to the sex they were assigned at birth in state records. The bill, called the “Women’s Bill of Rights” was authored by Rep. Ellen Troxclair and carried by Sen. Mayes Middleton.

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The Texas House just passed HB 229 by Rep. Troxclair, defining “male” and “female” in law based on biological reality.

I proudly voted YES. Texas will not surrender to gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/MzM59LRYAd

— Briscoe Cain (@BriscoeCain) May 12, 2025

The bill passed 20-11 and will now go to the governor’s desk. The relatively brief debate summarized:@mayes_middleton: “Your birth sex is your birth sex, period.” @Menendez4Texas: “This is a form of state-sponsored discrimination.”

— Eleanor Klibanoff (@eklib) May 28, 2025