Every day is a new nightmare.

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created by unaliased05 on 08/03/2025 at 18:30 UTC

4214 upvotes, 209 top-level comments (showing 25)

Being trans in Texas is getting more and more impossible. At what point do I just give up?

Comments

Comment by Upset_Consequence_52 at 08/03/2025 at 18:39 UTC

1273 upvotes, 12 direct replies

Is this the smaller government we where told about?

Comment by toomuchswiping at 08/03/2025 at 18:57 UTC

504 upvotes, 4 direct replies

The TX lege truly is the worst kind of scum sucking bottom feeders you’ll ever find.

Comment by Love-uncertainty at 08/03/2025 at 19:11 UTC

235 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Abbott has nothing better to do with his time? How about fixing the fucking energy grid😡😡😡

Comment by My_Anonymous_Photo at 08/03/2025 at 21:52 UTC

92 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Ted Cruz has a real name, it’s Rafael…would he be committing fraud as well?

Comment by Texastony2 at 08/03/2025 at 18:52 UTC

265 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Im offended that there are so many bigots in the Texas legislature.

Comment by Have_a_good_day_42 at 08/03/2025 at 21:11 UTC

53 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Federal agencies should only recognize two sexes, male and female.

“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

“Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

No one produces reproductive cells at conception, therefore federal agencies can't recognize any human as male or female.

So if the federal goverment recognizes you as male or as female, they are misgendering you. Anyone who identifies itself as male or female is by definition trans, because they were neither at conception.

This law would say everyone is commiting identity fraud.

Comment by Training_Author_4963 at 08/03/2025 at 22:10 UTC

27 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I purpose it to be a felony for any white male that puts on a straw hat and boots that does not actively own or work on a ranch now be charged as well. This coming from a guy that grew up working on a cattle ranch.

Tell me more about the small government they keep talking about. Embarrassed to call myself a Texan any more.

Comment by Kate-2025123 at 08/03/2025 at 19:14 UTC*

274 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Well it isn’t fraud. We are transgender and our sex identity is part of our biological sex. Who I put on my documents and am in public reflects who I am inside and that is being expressed on the outside. It’s really that simple.

I mean if this is fraud then so is claiming one has a spirit or can heal people through prayer. So if one identifies as Christian one can say spirits aren’t real and so that person would be lying.

Comment by virtualmentalist38 at 08/03/2025 at 19:23 UTC

129 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Try as they might they will never intimidate me into compliance. I exist, I’m here, and I’m not going away. I continue to live my life, do something about it. I’ve resolved that the only REAL power a fascist regime has is that which is given them willingly by the citizenry. I’m not giving them any, they can come and take it.

Comment by ViolettaQueso at 08/03/2025 at 21:05 UTC

68 upvotes, 0 direct replies

How bout we ban criminals from pretending to be president first?

Comment by Civil-happiness-2000 at 08/03/2025 at 23:25 UTC

17 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Wow Texas govt has more in common with the Taliban.

Comment by dobbestheskeptic at 08/03/2025 at 18:41 UTC

105 upvotes, 4 direct replies

When are people gunna start throwing bricks through government windows?

Comment by T_Loooooo at 08/03/2025 at 18:49 UTC

75 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Their threats are so insane. the president is a felon

Comment by ITZOURTIMENOW at 08/03/2025 at 18:51 UTC

71 upvotes, 1 direct replies

My fuckin goodness!!!!! These fuckin hypocrites are so hellbent on making life difficult for people. Their choice to live how they wanna live doesn’t directly affect these people, so why do they care so much?!?!???!?

Comment by theatxrunner at 08/03/2025 at 18:52 UTC

45 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Completely separate from the actual issue, I feel like calling it “identity fraud” is a deliberate move to confuse people on what is being discussed or voted on. At a casual glance, I assumed it was a bill about the crime of identity theft.

Comment by FederationReborn at 08/03/2025 at 20:57 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

They will lose.

Comment by deepayes at 08/03/2025 at 21:15 UTC

13 upvotes, 0 direct replies

1st amendment says I can identify as whatever the fuck I want. Not that conservatives actually care about free speech.

Comment by Broken_Beaker at 08/03/2025 at 20:24 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

"Small government"

Comment by space_manatee at 08/03/2025 at 19:05 UTC

41 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Never give up but take care of yourself first and be safe.

This hasn't passed yet. If it does, it might be time to get out but that's your call. Trans people dont deserve this and there are lots of places that will accept you for who you are and where existence isn't a constant struggle.

Comment by symbolsandthings at 08/03/2025 at 21:27 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It’s like they spend all their time every day trying their damnedest to come up with ways to be worse than they were the day before.

Comment by welliedude at 08/03/2025 at 22:42 UTC

10 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Does this mean that jd vance is also commiting a felony since he changed his name?

Comment by _bean_and_cheese_ at 08/03/2025 at 19:09 UTC

28 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Let’s focus all our attention and make life a living hell on a 0.5% of the entire state population. Why are they so obsessed with trans and gays? Who cares they pay taxes like the rest of us, get a life

Comment by KindaDutch at 08/03/2025 at 20:03 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Everyone in the USA is a woman according to a poorly worded executive order by Donald.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/trump-executive-order-sex-female-male-gender