What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[MrPopo]

Texas is probably not the best place to move, given the rest of what's going on in your life.

[AppleQueso]

Texas is probably not the best place to move, given the rest of what's going on in your life.

I'm already in Texas, so yeah. Austin might end up being a stopgap, but for now I'm not too worried. Besides, I can't really move out of state until my car is payed off, which will take a couple of years.

Austin at least has anti-discrimination protections for employment/housing.

[Key-Glyph]

Big news!

Congratulations, for the eleventy-billionth time!

Seeing you back on the boards is like having a good friend return home from a far-away family vacation. So glad to know you're around again!

[dsheinem]

Big news!

Congratulations, for the eleventy-billionth time!

Seeing you back on the boards is like having a good friend return home from a far-away family vacation. So glad to know you're around again!

Ditto. Glad to see you around, and happy to hear you've decided that this is a safe space to disclose that kind of personal news. You've been an important part of shaping this forum into the kind of place it is, so you absolutely should be here to enjoy the fruits of that labor.

So…any preferences for pronouns?

[Jmustang1968]

Texas is probably not the best place to move, given the rest of what's going on in your life.

Texas isnt as inhospitable to these situations as some would think, at least in the cities. Austin especially is very open.

[Hobie-wan]

Texas is probably not the best place to move, given the rest of what's going on in your life.

Texas isnt as inhospitable to these situations as some would think, at least in the cities. Austin especially is very open.

The big problem is marriage status and how that affects insurance, co-ownership of property, and things of that nature. Our legislature isn't exactly progressive on those sorts of things.

[dsheinem]

Austin especially is very open.

excluding the Perry mansion, of course...

[AppleQueso]

Yeah hospitality and openness isn't really the issue (especially in Austin, though I hear good things about Dallas and Houston too) so much as like, legal stuff. Like I said, Austin has employment/housing anti-discrimination protections for gender identity and sexual orientation, so yeah.

I'm planning to take care of marriage before dealing with the legal gender stuff. A bit of a loophole, but you do what you gotta do.

So…any preferences for pronouns?

Been going by "she/her" in support spaces, and that's what my girlfriend uses now, so I'd prefer that.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Texas is probably not the best place to move, given the rest of what's going on in your life.

Texas isnt as inhospitable to these situations as some would think, at least in the cities. Austin especially is very open.

The big problem is marriage status and how that affects insurance, co-ownership of property, and things of that nature. Our legislature isn't exactly progressive on those sorts of things.

I was kind of wondering about that, how does Texas define gender in the case of transgenders when it comes to marriage and such?

[AppleQueso]

I was kind of wondering about that, how does Texas define gender in the case of transgenders when it comes to marriage and such?

It is completely up in the air right now, literally nobody knows. Lots of contradictory legal precedent, but the gist of it is that when a case comes up in which someone has a compelling reason to want the marriage invalidated (say, inheritance cases and such), judges here seem to play a game of "you're whatever gender we decide you are in order to invalidate your marriage."