Prohibits public employees and officers from using terms like 'gender-affirming care', referring to transgender individuals with nouns matching their gender identity, or using terms like 'cisgender', so less official recognition and use of transgender-related language in government communications.
(4) Use the term "gender-affirming care" to describe treatments that are inconsistent with an individual's biological sex assigned at birth;
Prohibits public officers and employees from listing, displaying, or hyperlinking preferred gender pronouns in official documents, communications, or government email accounts, so less official recognition of transgender or nonbinary gender identities.
(1) List, display, or provide a hyperlink to a person's preferred gender pronouns;
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↓Restricts abortion accessmodel confidence 80%
Prohibits public employees from describing elective abortions as "abortion care" or "health care" in official communications, so less favorable framing of abortion in government documents.
(2) Describe elective abortions as "abortion care" or "health care" of any sort;
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill adds Chapter 620 to the Government Code prohibiting various terms and practices related to gender identity, transgender recognition, and abortion terminology in public employment and government communications, with a private right of action for violations. This directly addresses transgender topics by restricting preferred pronouns, gender-affirming care references, and related language (subtags education and other, as it covers public entities broadly including schools), and abortion by restricting positive or medical framing of the procedure. No other listed topics are substantively
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SB1999Relating to protection for a public employee's or student's use of terms consistent with biological sex.↓Restricts transgender recognition & access↓Restricts transgender recognition & access Died (session ended)