xna 4.0 - Alpha blending not rendering properly XNA 4.0

I'm trying to render a tree made out of 2 rectangles intersecting in the center at a 90degree angle. The texture has an alpha channel but which ever rectangle gets rendered second causes a weird problem with the transparency.

Here is my rendering code:

public override void render(GraphicsDevice gd, Camera camera)
{
    RasterizerState rs = new RasterizerState();
    rs.CullMode = CullMode.None;
    gd.RasterizerState = rs;
    gd.BlendState = BlendState.AlphaBlend;


    effect.CurrentTechnique = effect.Techniques["TexturedNoShading"];
    effect.Parameters["xWorld"].SetValue(Matrix.CreateTranslation(position));
    effect.Parameters["xView"].SetValue(camera.getViewMatrix());
    effect.Parameters["xProjection"].SetValue(camera.getProjectionMatrix());
    effect.Parameters["xTexture"].SetValue(m_texture);

    foreach (EffectPass pass in effect.CurrentTechnique.Passes)
    {
        pass.Apply();


        gd.Indices = m_indexBuffer;
        gd.SetVertexBuffer(m_vertexBuffer);
        gd.DrawIndexedPrimitives(PrimitiveType.TriangleList, 0, 0, m_vertices.Length, 0, m_indices.Length / 3);
    }

    rs = new RasterizerState();
    rs.CullMode = CullMode.CullCounterClockwiseFace;
    gd.RasterizerState = rs;


    gd.BlendState = BlendState.Opaque;
}