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When Texas started preventing transgender residents from changing the sex marker on their IDs in August last year, journalist Gwen Howerton jumped at the chance to report on the development.
“It was something that I found myself uniquely able to do in a way that a lot of my cisgender, heterosexual colleagues, who are very nice people, could not do,” said Howerton, who is transgender and reports from Houston for the news site Chron. “I know these issues the best because I’ve lived them.”
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