Public school superintendents in Texas have voted 586-32 in a January referendum adopting a new rule requiring schools to use birth certificates to determine gender of prospective student-athletes in ...

Texas has stopped allowing trans people to correct the gender marker on their birth certificates, according to LGBTQ+ advocacy groups in the state. On Friday, the Transgender Education Network of ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas health officials on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by immigrant parents who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children because local ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is not allowing transgender people to use court orders to get their sex changed on their birth certificates. This comes just weeks after DPS stopped accepting those orders for ...

During Texas’ recent 88 th legislative session, and a year after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, several bills were passed to support family preservation through strengthening programs for families with ...

Demonstrators rally to show support to the transgender community at the Texas State Capitol on the Trans Day of Visibility, April 2, 2022. (Sheryl Wong for KUT) Transgender Texans can no longer update ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) made an unannounced policy change Friday, modifying its requirements for Texans seeking to change the sex marker on their birth ...

Lawmakers in the Texas legislature are considering a bill that would prohibit people in the state from changing the gender marker on their birth certificate to reflect their gender identity. The ...

Two recent policy changes in Texas threaten to endanger transgender people and open the door to fraud and invasion of privacy, critics say. The state’s Department of Public Safety has banned changes ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared Friday that state court orders to change the sex markers on Texas birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other state-issued IDs are no longer valid. State ...

Texas House opponents of Senate Bill 1188 said the required reporting of gender assigned at birth excludes transgender and intersex patients who may be forced to have a gender they don't identify with ...