By Lil Kalish
Emily Bray was supposed to be celebrating on Tuesday morning. After years of trying to change her name and gender marker, the 27-year-old YouTuber received an official court order from a Texas judge that she was at last, in the eyes of the state, the woman she had long known herself to be.
But that elation was short-lived.
An hour later, she logged onto the private Facebook group where she and other trans Texans discussed the bureaucracy of changing one’s name and gender in a state that is becoming increasingly hostile to trans people. One person shared that they had gone into the Department of Public Safety to update their driver’s license that day and learned that the agency had issued a new policy, barring the use of court orders or birth certificates to change one’s listed sex.
“There’s no other way to describe it than a gut punch,” Bray told HuffPost.
A lot of MAGAts would gladly shoot themselves in the foot if they were certain the bullet hurts “the libs”
A lot of conservatives are happy to eat shit if they know that you’ll just eat more of it
The way I’ve always heard it is that Conservatives will eat a shit sandwich if it means a Liberal has to smell it.