Two bills broaching contentious social issues took the stage in the Texas House of Representatives on Saturday night — one requiring insurance companies to cover adverse results from gender modification procedures and detransitions, and the other codifying male and female as the sole biological sexes in state law.
House Bill (HB) 229, which both provides a definition for male and female in state code and declares them as the two existing biological sexes, was carried by Rep. Ellen Troxclair (R-Lakeway) through numerous points of orders and hours of heated debate on the House floor. It eventually passed along party lines with 86 votes in favor, 36 against.
