Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion stating that state agencies should ignore court orders allowing for changes to gender markers in official documents for nonbinary individuals. His stance advocates for reverting sex markers on documents, asserting a biological binary. This has garnered criticism from activists, who warn that it could harm the transgender community by complicating the process of updating IDs and reflecting a lived identity. Paxton's comments emphasize a strict adherence to biological sex over legal recognition of gender identity changes.
There are only two sexes, and that is determined not by feelings or 'gender theory' but by biology at conception, Paxton said.
The trans community in Texas is scared, said Brad Pritcher, stressing the legal and emotional impact of the opinion.
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