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Texas agency threatens to fire anyone who does not dress "according to their biological gender" [1]

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Date: 2023-04-25  

In the latest salvo on what I’m now calling the War Against Trans and Non-Binary, the Texas Department of Agriculture, led by Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, has issued an internal memo stating that all employees must dress in a manner “consistent with their biological gender”.

The memo, which is clearly aimed at transgender and gender non-conforming employees, goes on to say that repeated violations of the policy will be subject to “corrective action” up to and including being fired, according to the Observer. One employee who spoke with the Observer said the policy “feels like it threatens the safety of anyone who doesn’t conform to the binary dress code.” The internal department memo is just the latest attempt by state officials in Texas to crack down on trans and gender non-conforming people. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state agency overseeing child protective services to investigate the parents of transgender children for child abuse last year, and a bill to ban transition-related care for minors is currently moving through the legislature.

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Sid Miller is, of course, a staunch Conservative who was first elected to the Texas Legislature in 2014 and who hailed Trump’s 2017 ban on transgender people in the US military, stating “I just wonder why it took so damn long. The United States Military is not the place for leftist social experimentation.”

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