Texas AG: State Agencies Must Ignore Court Orders to Change Sex on Birth Certificates, Driver’s Licenses

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday issued a formal opinion (No. KP-0489) that says state district courts don’t have the judicial authority to direct government agencies to amend a person’s biological sex on driver’s licenses, birth certificates and other government identification documents.

“State agencies must immediately correct any unlawfully altered driver’s licenses or birth certificates that were changed pursuant to such orders,” Paxton states in the opinion requested last September by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

“Radical, Left-Wing Judges”

“There are only two sexes, and that is determined not by feelings or ‘gender theory’ but by biology at conception,” Paxton said in a press release, adding:

“Radical left-wing judges do not have jurisdiction to order agencies to violate the law — nor do they have the authority to overrule reality. In Texas, we will follow common sense and restore any documents that were wrongfully changed to be consistent with biology.”

• Note: AG’s opinions do not have the force of law, but are generally relied upon by state and local governmental entities (unless a final court ruling determines otherwise).