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Sam Levine in New York

Texas state agency orders workers to dress ‘consistent to their biological gender’

Sid Miller, the commissioner of agriculture, sent out a memo outlining dress policy for the department.
Sid Miller, the commissioner of agriculture, sent out a memo outlining dress policy for the department. Photograph: Zuma Press Inc/Alamy

A Texas state agency told its employees this month that they must dress in a manner that is “consistent with their biological gender”, a directive that seemed to be a thinly veiled attack on transgender employees.

The state’s department of agriculture laid out the dress policy in a 13 April memo, which was first reported by the Texas Observer.

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