@condalmo the bill says what it does, thereis no need to speculate.
Big bad Ted Cruz doesnt magically change what the bill says it does just cause he is the ass that created it.
I am not saying he created it to protect transpeople, but that is effectively what it does by only allowing employees to be forced to use legal names, so employees therefore can be compelled to use a persons changed name and not their "dead name" but the other way around is not allowed, they cant be forced to use a non-official name (like calling someone by their dead name after a name change).