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Yesterday, a bill was introduced in Texas that would make it a state felony, punishable by jail, to be transgender. See Texas H.B. 3817
 	
Sec. 32.515.  GENDER IDENTITY FRAUD.

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly makes a false or misleading verbal or written statement to a governmental entity or the person's employer by identifying the person's biological sex as the opposite of the biological sex assigned to the person at birth.

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.

Before everyone says this is oh, this is just Texas being Texas and is unlikely to pass - please note that our federal government is also moving in this direction, claiming in at least one instance that trans people, merely by virtue of being trans, are committing fraud. On Feb 24, the U.S. State Department sent a bulletin directing border officials to permanently bar trans athletes from entering the U.S. The clause being cited by the federal gov't is Section 212(a)(6)(C)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act: "Any alien who, by fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact, seeks to procure (or has sought to procure or has procured) a visa, other documentation, or admission into the United States or other benefit provided under this chapter is inadmissible."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/visa-ban-transgender-athletes?CMP=share_btn_url.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

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