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This story first published on The Texas Tribune on October 21, 2025.

(The Texas Tribune) -- When Liz Graff started their second year of law school this fall, the nonbinary transgender student noticed a shift in how their peers treated them.

Male classmates stopped holding the door for Graff or bumped into them on the sidewalk. In class, students called transgender women “men.” Peers said publicly that people expressing gender identities that diverge from what was assigned at birth has gotten out of h

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