Texans born without traditional sex traits worry new law will force them to choose a gender they don’t identify with

Aside from a hole in his heart that surgery fixed early in his life, Mo Cortez didn’t have any notable medical complications growing up in San Angelo.

By all accounts, he was a normal, healthy kid. He fondly remembers playing the original Super Mario Bros. with his older brother and watching Garfield, imagining that if he had a real cat, it’d act the same way.