Jennifer R. Povey
1 min readJun 21, 2022

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Something you didn't highlight.

"Prohibit social transitioning."

"Your daughter has short hair and shortens Wilhelmina to Bill. She must grow her hair and choose a feminine nickname or we're going to take her away."

This is actually "Ensure gender-based stereotypes based on biological sex are applied to all children until they reach the age of consent." By which I assume they mean 21. Kids who go to college in Texas may suddenly find that they have to have a Proper Gendered Hairstyle As Determined By White People.

Because "social transition" covers any non-conforming with gender roles.

(Also they want to end no-fault divorce. I'm fine with supporting covenant marriage as an option for religious people who want it, but ending unilateral no-fault divorce is entirely about forcing people tostay with abusive partners).

My best hope is this will finally flip Texas. There are a lot of good decent people there and if they all turn out to vote...it came close last time and I think this is a reaction out of fear of that. Hopefully it will backfire.

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Jennifer R. Povey
Jennifer R. Povey

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I write about fantasy, science fiction and horror, LGBT issues, travel, and social issues.

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