The agency quietly rolled out the policy change on its website last week, days after DPS blocked changes to the sex listed on a Texas driver's license.
Transgender Texans can no longer update the sex listed on their birth certificates, according to a policy change quietly rolled out on Friday.
Texans who have secured a court order to update the sex listed on their birth certificates can no longer do so at this time, a spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services confirmed to The Texas Newsroom.The policy change comes as conservative states across the country move to make it more difficult for transgender Americans to update their documents with the sex that matches their gender identity.KXAN first reported about the change on Saturday.
The Texas health agency made the change without a public announcement. It went into effect a little more than a week after the Department of Public Safety Chris Van Deusen, the spokesperson for the Department of State Health Services, pointed to these same questions to explain the agency's birth certificate policy change.
"Recent public reports have highlighted concerns about the validity of court orders purporting to amend sex for purposes of state-issued documents. DSHS is seeking assistance from the Office of Attorney General to determine the applicability of these concerns to amendments to vital records," Van Deusen told The Texas Newsroom in a statement.
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