Below are posts associated with the “Texas” tag.

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


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.

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


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.

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


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.

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


Kentucky has taken some bad steps in this direction lately, but this is horrific.

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


All very worrying.

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


So devastating.

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


This is frustrating and sad.