🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Texas agriculture department's new dress code based on 'biological gender' : NPR'

25 April 2023 - kudos:

There’s no such thing as dressing according to one’s biological sex. Gender-based dress expectations are perhaps the best possible example of the social construction of gender. What inanity. link to ‘Texas agriculture department’s new dress code based on ‘biological gender’ : NPR’

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Texas Sues Google Over Use of Facial Images - WSJ'

20 October 2022 - kudos:

I don’t like Paxton, and I can’t imagine this is much more than performative railing against a strawman version of Big Tech, but this is a real issue, so I’m interested to see where it goes. link to ‘Texas Sues Google Over Use of Facial Images - WSJ’

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Texas GOP's new platform says Biden didn't really win the 2020 election : NPR'

20 June 2022 - kudos:

I get that some of this is bluster and posturing, but that doesn’t make it any less worrying. This is the same state GOP that leaned into Gab a year or two ago. link to ‘Texas GOP’s new platform says Biden didn’t really win the 2020 election : NPR’

🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Texas Is Going to Start Investigating Parents of Trans Kids for Child Abuse'

23 February 2022 - kudos:

Kentucky has taken some bad steps in this direction lately, but this is horrific. link to ‘Texas Is Going to Start Investigating Parents of Trans Kids for Child Abuse’

🔗 linkblog: just finished 'In Texas, Panic Over Critical Race Theory Extends to Bookshelves - The New York Times'

10 December 2021 - kudos:

All very worrying. link to ‘In Texas, Panic Over Critical Race Theory Extends to Bookshelves - The New York Times’

🔗 linkblog: just read 'How sexual assault survivors are harmed by the Texas abortion law : Shots - Health News : NPR'

15 November 2021 - kudos:

So devastating. link to ‘How sexual assault survivors are harmed by the Texas abortion law : Shots - Health News : NPR’

🔗 linkblog: just read 'Texas Removed an L.G.B.T.Q. Resource Page After a Candidate Complained - The New York Times'

15 October 2021 - kudos:

This is frustrating and sad. link to ‘Texas Removed an L.G.B.T.Q. Resource Page After a Candidate Complained - The New York Times’