New Texas bill that would make being trans a felony sparks fury: ‘There’s no fraud in being trans’

An already-reviled law proposed in Texas could make it illegal for transgender people to identify as their preferred gender, sparking widespread outrage.

An anti-transgender House Bill put forward on Wednesday (5 March) requests that the southern state amend its criminal law on identity theft to include so-called “gender identity fraud.”

If passed, a person could be charged with a felony for “identifying the person’s biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth,” effectively making the existence of trans and non-binary people illegal.

The law, proposed by Republican Tom Oliverson, would punish those in violation of existing as a trans person with up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. It is unlikely to become law, with

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