Texas to eliminate Trans identity

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

Dozens of trans people and their allies gathered in the outdoor Capitol rotunda Friday, chanting at the top of their lungs.

They will not erase us.

The next day, the Texas House of Representatives preliminarily passed a bill that aims to do just that.

House Bill 229 strictly defines men and women based on the reproductive organs they were born with, and orders state records to reflect this binary. The bill, titled the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” lays out the “biological truth for anybody who is confused,” said author Rep. Ellen Troxclair, an Austin Republican.

The bill finally passed Monday 87-56 after two days of Democrats arguing vociferously against the bill. It will next go to the Senate, which has already passed several bills with a similar focus.

Surrounded by a cadre of Republican women, Troxclair said on Saturday the goal of the bill was to ensure women’s rights aren’t “eroded by activists” as more people come out as trans and nonbinary. Democrats argued against the bill with Rep. Jessica González, D-Dallas, saying “it is harmful, it is dangerous, and it is really freaking insulting.”

If this bill becomes law, more than 120,000 trans Texans would be forced to be defined in state records by the sex they were assigned at birth, rather than the gender they identify as, even if they’ve already legally changed their birth certificates and driver’s licenses.

The debate rehashed a deep fracture over sex and gender that has animated the Texas Legislature, and much of the country, for the last five sessions. In previous years, legislators focused on tangible questions of bathroom access, youth sports and gender-affirming care for minors.

“We're a state that believes in truth, and we're a state that honors the hard-won achievements of women, the women who fought for the right to vote, to compete in sports and to be safe in public spaces, to be treated equally under the law,” Troxclair said on the floor. “But if we can no longer define what a woman is, we cannot defend what women have won. We cannot protect what we cannot define.”

In the bill, a woman is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova,” and a man is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.” Democrats criticized this as overly simplistic, excluding trans people, but also intersex people and those who can’t conceive children.

“Any biologist knows there are variations in sex chromosomes, hormone levels and other traits … where an individual's biological characteristics don't align with typical male or female categorization,” said Rep. Jon Rosenthal, a Democrat from Houston. “The real question is, do you believe that all people have the basic rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of their own personal happiness?”

This bill aligns with an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott, who declared in January that Texas only recognizes two sexes, male and female, and a non-binding legal opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said state agencies should not honor court opinions to change someone’s sex listed on official documents.

At the Capitol rally on Friday, Lambda Legal senior attorney Shelly Skeen said revoking these changed documents, and preventing people from changing them in the future, “affects every aspect of our daily lives.” Having a birth certificate or drivers’ license that reflects a different sex than their physical presentation, or that doesn’t align with their passport or other documents, could leave trans people in a legal limbo and potentially open them up to violence, she said.

It could impact the state facilities, like prisons, they are sorted into, the bathrooms and locker rooms they are supposed to use and the discrimination protections they are entitled to, Skeen said. Unlike other bills, like the so-called “bathroom bill,” this legislation does not have civil or criminal penalties for using a facility that doesn’t align with one’s sex.

Troxclair did accept one amendment, by El Paso Democrat Rep. Mary González, to clarify how intersex people, who are born with both sets of reproductive organs, fit into these definitions.

The chamber also approved Senate Bill 1257, which would require health insurers that cover gender-affirming care also cover any adverse consequences and costs of detransitioning. The bill, authored by Sen. Bryan Hughes and sponsored by Rep. Jeff Leach, passed 87-58.

Leach said he brought this bill on behalf of people who were left with tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills because their health insurance wouldn’t cover the costs of detransitioning.

“The illustration that I think best describes this is, if you take somebody to the dance and they want to go home, then you have to take them home,” Leach said during the debate on Saturday.

The bill says that any insurance company that covers gender-affirming care must cover all detransition-related costs for its members, even if that person wasn’t on the health insurance plan at the time they transitioned. Democrats filed more than half a dozen amendments to narrow the scope of the bill, critiquing the bill as a health insurance mandate. None of the amendments passed.

Last session, Texas lawmakers outlawed gender-affirming care for minors. Trans advocates worry that raising the cost of covering gender-affirming care will result in health insurers not covering the treatments for adults, either.

“If you can make it painful enough for providers and insurers, health care is gone,” said Emmett Schelling, the executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas. “It doesn’t just feed into gender-affirming care. It bleeds into health care that we all need, that we all deserve.”

Speaking on the floor Saturday, Rep. Ann Johnson, a Houston Democrat, said the Legislature was telling insurance companies not to cover gender-affirming care.

"The reality is this bill, however you couch it, is about eliminating the existence of trans individuals in Texas,” Johnson said. “Stop pretending that you're for freedom. Stop pretending that this is about the kids."

 

Source: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/10/texas-house-trans-bills-advance/

[Mars 2,650]

More great news coming out of the devoid, hollow, inhumane, morally corrupt states of America.

[Cavadour 2,704]

13 minutes ago, Mars said:

More great news coming out of the devoid, hollow, inhumane, morally corrupt states of America.

I was gonna say, what do you expect from the the most racist and non-inclusive state of the US ?

[Flareon Voyager 379]

So they’re going to start rounding up trans people and jailing them? People need to start asking the real questions about what these bills will lead to. Will plain clothed people now start arresting trans people? Will women now have to show their genitals before entering a public bathroom? 

[Ilia Malinin 2,877]

well, i can never visit my family in texas again.  i don't want to be jailed for having a little M on my id when i don't pass well enough yet.

what the f**k is so wrong with trans people to these scumbags?  and don't give me the goddamn "predators" excuse.  if a man wants to assault a woman in a bathroom, he's not gonna go through years of hormone therapy and gender affirming surgery.  HE'S JUST GOING TO F**KING WALK INTO THE BATHROOM AND DO IT!  i am so sick of us trans people being seen as less than the dirt on the bottom of a politician's ugly ass shoe.

[River 127,318]

they can try to erase trans people as much as they want but they are here to stay.

Prides this year should be about TRANS RIGHTS TRANS VISIBILITY TRANS ADMIRATION.

I'm gonna march with the trans flag in every pride I'm gonna participate this year, you should do the same.

[Blackout19 15,707]

Sad...

[MonsterfromVietnam 73]

why do trans people suddenly become the subject of burning interest to those people ?   I honestly don't understand. 

[culturalbaptism 2,969]

If trans people don't exist in texas they won't have to pay taxes right? right?

[The Ew from Judas 1,516]

This is absolutely disgusting. to everyone here and just in the world in general I am so sorry. This country is disgusting. But the Trans community has some of the strongest people I have ever met, and changing what a legal document says will not stop them from being who they are. America never learns that trying to remove people’s rights does not squander or stop them, it only makes people more vocal and stronger. 
 

 

[Franch Toast 27,737]

They claim this is to protect women, but we know Texas Republicans (and most Republicans everywhere) just view women as incubators and fücktoys. 

They don't give a damn about women. It's just an excuse to be cruel and bigoted. 

[PartySick 172,404]

1 hour ago, MonsterfromVietnam said:

why do trans people suddenly become the subject of burning interest to those people ?   I honestly don't understand. 

They're just a convenient target.

These Republicans don't have the convictions necessary to actually hate anybody, they're just riling up the red hatted morons to keep themselves in power so they can continue to degrade society and profit from the downfall.

[Nagini 4,147]

1 hour ago, PartySick said:

They're just a convenient target.

These Republicans don't have the convictions necessary to actually hate anybody, they're just riling up the red hatted morons to keep themselves in power so they can continue to degrade society and profit from the downfall.

This. Their target is anyone or anything that makes the left look insane or immoral. Democrats are also in part to blame for this perception by either not fighting back, acquiescing to the demands of fringe left, or prioritizing issues that do not matter... they have a huge brand problem that is literally causing so much harm to the minorities they claim to care about. It's a shame all around and here we are with this news...

[southpaw773 4,364]

Eliminate Texas 

[Ilia Malinin 2,877]

3 hours ago, The Ew from Judas said:

This is absolutely disgusting. to everyone here and just in the world in general I am so sorry. This country is disgusting. But the Trans community has some of the strongest people I have ever met, and changing what a legal document says will not stop them from being who they are. America never learns that trying to remove people’s rights does not squander or stop them, it only makes people more vocal and stronger. 
 

 

this right here.  trying to take away my existence is not going to make me go away, it's only going to make me more annoying.   like a fly you're trying to get to leave your house but just refuses to find the front door you left wide open.  take away my rights and my existence, and i will make your existence hell.  i will make me your problem.  i would rather die as a man than live in fear as a woman, no one is going to take that from me.