Greg Abbott on Sept. 22 signed a bill into law that requires people to use public bathrooms and other facilities according to their biological sex. The law stipulates that family violence shelters providing services specifically to women may serve only biological women and their children aged 17 and under. “No longer will a biological male be permitted to enter a women’s private space (locker room, bathroom, changing room, etc). This followed a 2021 law that barred biological males in K-12 schools from joining sports teams that do not match their biological sex. The governor signed into law in June of this year a bill that defined male and female.