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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 certificates.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

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 ...