Since I broke the story of #Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's new... - Politics

kitoconnell, 1 year ago

Since I broke the story of #Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's new transphobic dress code in the @TexasObserver, he's doubled down on his bigotry in the media.

For my latest update, I spoke with an employment lawyer, a former #gender law educator turned senior attorney for Lambda Legal, and #LGBTQIA+ advocates about why this dress code opens the department up to serious legal liability, and how decades of precedent suggest it could easily be ruled discriminatory: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-dress-code-transphobia-texas-agriculture/

#Transphobia #queer #nonbinary #trans #transgender #news #Politics #agriculture #SocialMedia #birdsite #Fascism
(CW: eye contact with Sid Miller in main image)

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