Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared Friday Such a state court will order the change of sex markers to Texas birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other driving IDs are no longer valid.
State agencies have been prohibited by transgender people from changing sex markers to their Certificates of Birth and Driver Licenses by the internal policy change last year. Paxton’s new directive requires them to go further and return any changes to the score of sex that is the result of court orders. The directive is the first of this type of whole country and still marks another wasting of the state’s nearest efforts to prevent people’s rights.
“There are only two sexes, and that is determined not by feelings or ‘gender theory’ but by biology of conception,” Paxton said on a statement Friday. “The Judges of Left Wit-Wing There is no jurisdiction to order agencies to violate the law nor do they have the authority to indulge in reality. In Texas, we will follow any poor documents to be altered with biology.”
Paxton’s The directive comes from an unbiased legal opinion In response to A request from Steven McCrawDepartment of Texas department of public safety (DPS), in September. McCraw has asked the attorney’s General when Texas courts have authority to order state agencies to change a person’s sex calling in government documents. If they are not, McCraw continues, the agencies such as DPS have the authority to turn sex markers for the Texans in court?
McCraw says his request with a “years length and state effort to change government records to show sex recognition.” He added that judges with sex changes changes in documents “can do it without checking Texas documents.
Transgender advocates say IDs exactly appear Gender recognition of a person is critical to their safety. Documents showing their sex at birth and not their genders, they say, can cause problems while going by airport security and travelStart a new job – where their ID can do as the trans with an employer – Voting in the election or interact with law enforcement.
However, McCraw said state documents to show the sex, which he / she describes as “a biological fact” with a clear identification “and that precise identification” and that accurate identification for public safety. “Conservative officials often quote similar meaning to sex, even if Scientists estimate 1.7% of people born intersexxmean that they have sex qualities that are inappropriate typical male or female meaning.
Ash Hall, a strategic LGBTQ and adverse strategic for ACLU in Texas, said non-legal opinions, such as Paxtone orders.
“State agencies do not have authority to change valid legal documents,” Hall in a statement. “If state agencies try to implement this non-binding opinion, it’s an unlawful waste of resources that will not be able to meet with the test of time and Paxton unable to erase the right to Transgersd Texans.”
Paxton’s McCraw and legal opinion is the latest effort from Texas officials to roll trans Texans rights.
In 2023, the state enforces the law forbidding care associated with transit for minors and prohibit sports sports that align their sex identities.
Many of the changes in the state policy focuses on people who change legislatures, through agencies that choose their policies within or in Paxton issuing legal directives for them to do so. On March 2022, after the State Lawmakers failed a bill that prevents care associated with transfer to minors and directives resulting in Texas and protection department services Opening Investigating Child Abuse of Parents who suspected that gave such care their little children, even if the The directive is later blocked by a verdict.
Public A and Department of State Health Services’ Safety Department Both forbidden people who have updated sex signs on their Driver Licenses and Certificates of Birth in August and September. The state justifies the changes earlier This year searched a Executive Order signed by President Donald Trump that declares that the Federal government can only identify two, unchangeable sexes.
So far years, Texas legislators indicated almost 200 fees People in LGBTQ, according to Texas similar, a state advocacy group.
Last week, Republican State Rep. Tom Olveron Submitted a bill that may charge people With a felony of jail felony – punish up to two years in jail and fine up to $ 10,000 – if they recognize their sex with birth or employees. The bill had no other sponsors and could not pass, but it was the first of his country.
Texas is not alone in efforts to prevent IDs for transactions. Florida agencies rolled the same policies last yearand, as a result, the department of Florida department of strength in the motor and motor vehicles Starts the drivers issued by these transactions issued with updated sex markers and issuing them new licenses showing their sex with birth.
