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Gov. Greg Abbott added the legislation to the special session agenda after similar bills failed to pass during the regular session earlier this year.| The Texas Tribune
While eight-in-ten Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say that whether someone is a man or a woman is determined by the sex they were assigned at birth, most Democrats and Democratic leaners (64%) take the opposite view and say a person’s gender can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.| Pew Research Center
A majority of Americans have heard about the use of gender-neutral pronouns, and about one-in-five personally know someone who goes by such pronouns.| Pew Research Center