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Naming a child stands out as a major milestone for new parents. In some families, children are named even before they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

State officials have refused to give an untold number of Texas-born children birth certificates due to their parents’ immigration status, according to a lawsuit that was filed earlier this year. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...