Senate committee holds late night public comments hearing on gender definition bill

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In a late night meeting of the Texas Senate State Affairs committee Thursday, advocates spoke for hours against a bill that would codify a gender binary in Texas law, if passed.House Bill 229 would require state government officials to identify Texans in official records as male or female. It would also define those terms in Texas law as being based on a person's genitals.It passed a third vote in the Texas House of Representatives on Monday. Previous: House moves forward w