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Last week, Razavi, who asked to be identified by his last name only, went to the Houston DPS office to change the name and sex on his Texas driver’s license. After transitioning to female a few years ago—and changing all legal documents accordingly—he said he’d realized he “would always be viewed as a second-class citizen.” So he detransitioned, and in March he obtained a court order from a district court in Travis County to change his license back. But after a new policy was quietly rolled out last week via an internal email, prompted by the office of the Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Texas Department of Public Safety will no longer accept a court order as a basis to change a person’s sex on…

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Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. My distant cousin Doug Michels, a brash and enthusiastic futurist who, as a member of Ant Farm, helped create Amarillo’s iconic Cadillac Ranch fifty years ago, once wrote about the night that changed his life. Like his best tales, it was captivating, self-mythologizing, and hard to verify.His story went like this: Doug came to Texas from San Francisco in the spring of 1969 at the age of 25 to teach a seminar at the University of Houston architecture school. He led students on a wild journey of experiential learning, fueled by acid and pot, exploding conventions around the shapes and materials that make a building. They spent a night in the Astrodome…

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If you turn to TikTok for fashion advice, chances are you’ll probably have to sift through some unintelligible internetspeak in order to find helpful tips. One of the biggest shifts in modern fashion terminology has been the rise of “aesthetics” and “cores,” sartorial genres that attempt to categorize your wardrobe into searchable—and marketable—themes. Wear a lot of hot pink? That’s probably “Barbiecore,” a nod to last summer’s blockbuster. Are you into vintage blazers and relaxed J.Crew vibes? You might be an “old money girl.” But whether it’s “mermaidcore,” “eclectic grandpa,” or “coastal cowgirl,” these niche fashion trends often rise and fall in a matter of weeks, making them difficult for average consumers to keep up with. This summer, a hot new bombshell has entered the villa:…

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Sheep Meadow is quiet on this Wednesday morning in June. The guitar-strummers and sunbathers who lounged on its lawn yesterday are gone, and now its only occupants are the elms and sycamores that cluster along its edge, where I now stand with the Central Park Conservancy’s historian of the past forty years, Sara Cedar Miller. I have come to the leafy center of Manhattan on a quest to find traces, however faint, of parkmaker Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1854 horseback ride across Texas. I may be 1,800 miles from the heart of Texas, but I’m drawn to the alluring, if unprovable, theory that this famous green sward—borrowing the word Olmsted and his partner Calvin Vaux used when they designed this park in 1858—could be inspired by…

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In 2004, a public junior college in North Texas abandoned plans to lease some of its land to a religious organization for $1 a month after the state attorney general warned that the effort could violate the law.Nearly two decades later, the college went further. After publicly posting only that Weatherford College’s board would meet to discuss property, members emerged from behind closed doors in November 2022 and voted unanimously to give a 38-acre property to Community Christian School. The property was valued at more than $2 million, according to the county’s appraisal district.“Faith and patience is the path,” Dan Curlee, then the college’s attorney, wrote in an email after the vote to Doug Jefferson, the administrator of the private religious school.Jefferson, who had asked…

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