Texas Sex and Gender News Roundup

Now-former University of Texas professor Sarah Weddington.

Happy Official Barack Obama Birth Certificate Day. No doubt we can now move on to matters of pressing national concern, like addressing the floundering economy. No? Not really? Still harping on Planned Parenthood? Okay then.

• After a Republican hold-up, the Texas House has passed a bill to nip puppy mills in the bud.
• Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader poses nude-ish for PETA, which continues to claim that a vegetarian diet will automatically make you look like, well, a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. Celery comes with spray tan? I had no idea.
• Why didn’t MySpace delete hundreds of Texas sex offenders it knew had profiles on the social networking site? Also, MySpace still exists.
• Two North Texas women have been murdered by romantic partners in the last week. WB-33 has more on partner violence.
• The Texas A&M Aggies women’s basketball NCAA champs were honored at the Capitol yesterday.
• As of yesterday, Dallas County includes transgender people in its non-discrimination policy.
• A woman whose daughter appeared on an anti-choice, race-baiting billboard in New York City has filed suit against the sponsoring Texas anti-choice group Life Always.
• Sen. Dan Patrick, he of the sonogram-of-shame anti-choice bill in the Texas Senate, has now turned his attention to RU-486.
• It is expensive to test the more than 22,000 untested rape kits in Texas.
• The Dallas Morning News continues to refuse to run same-sex couples’ wedding announcements in their weddings section.
• The quality of a UT-Austin education just went down significantly: legal pioneer and beloved professor Sarah Weddington, who was just 26 when she argued Roe vs. Wade before the Supreme Court, has been laid off from the university because of budget cuts to the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies.
• Texas A&M counts male athletes as women to comply with Title IX.
• Dallas homeless man helps stop a rape in progress. Don’t read the comments.