Relating to prohibiting public officers and employees from displaying preferred gender pronouns; authorizing a private civil right of action.
89th Legislature Regular Session
WOKE TERMINOLOGY PROHIBITED IN PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT [...] No officer, employee, volunteer, or agent of a governmental entity may do any of the following [...]: (1) List, display, or provide a hyperlink to a person's preferred gender pronouns; [...] (3) Use any phrase that implies that men can become pregnant, such as "pregnant persons," "pregnant individuals," or "pregnant Texans"; (4) Use the term "gender-affirming care" [...] (5) Refer to any transgender individual with a noun that contravenes that individual's biological sex assigned at birth, i.e., a biological man who identifies as a woman may not be called a "transgender woman" or any phrase that implies that such an individual actually is a woman; (6) Use the terms "cisgender" and "cissexual";
History
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2025-03-11 | Filed |