Welcome. I'm from Virginia, but moved here from TX.
My daughter in TX is an open-carry advocate (and actually open carries at work in Austin a few blocks from the capital), but isn't on this forum.
As grapeshot mentioned, there are a lot of women-only forums, but not one here.
This forum is probably the best I've ever found at truly discussing laws - how they are and (way too often) how someone wishes it should be - with citations and analyses. There is a wealth of information here if you can wade through the non-gun-related posts that assume every gun owner thinks the same on every other issue as well. You can't beat the level of knowledge, you just have to find it.