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The Texas Tribune reports:
On Wednesday morning, Texas Department of Agriculture employees attended a mandatory training about equal employment opportunity led by an employment lawyer who teaches at Texas State University and served in the Navy. The training covered typical subjects for such meetings: discrimination, harassment and protected classes of employees.
At one point, the presenter broached the subject of gender identity, explaining concepts such as what makes someone “cisgender” or “transgender” and what it means to “deadname” someone, or intentionally use the name a person was given before their gender transition.
By Wednesday afternoon, the department wanted its employees to know it was sorry for the training, calling it “misinformation.” Department leaders sent staff an email that accused the trainer of presenting a “biased view” of employment law that some TDA employees found offensive and contrary to their religious beliefs.
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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller [photo] last appeared on JMG in 2021 when he was named as a speaker at an anti-vax/QAnon event that also featured Michael Flynn, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, and a slew of other crackpots. In 2016, Miller called Hillary Clinton a “c—t” on Twitter, for which he was rewarded with consideration to become Trump’s agriculture secretary.
New: The Texas Department of Agriculture renounced a mandatory workplace training on Wednesday that mentioned gender identity definitions.
The same state agency in April ordered employees to dress “in a manner consistent with their biological gender.” https://t.co/6sUlMTHF0n
— Alejandro Serrano (@serrano_alej) July 13, 2023