
First Transgender Judge In Texas History
Phillis Frye is a highly respected judge, and also the first transgendered judge in Texas. She’s been the first person to do a lot of things – like spearhead the repeal of Houston’s anti-crossdressing law in 1980 and insist on using the women’s bathroom at her university (now a hauntingly familiar conversation). After publicly assuming her chosen gender in 1976 at…