Ken Paxton, Texans and sex

Paxton says trans Texans can’t use court orders to change sex on driver’s licenses, birth certificates
Per the attorney general’s nonbinding opinion, state agencies should change gender markers on government documents back to a person’s sex assigned at birth.
Ken Paxton says it's illegal for transgender Texans to change sex on driver's license
Eight months after ordering the Texas Department of Public Safety and Department of State Health Services to block transgender Texans from changing the sex on their driver's license to match their gender identity,
It’s unlawful for transgender people to change the sex on their IDs, Texas AG Ken Paxton says
Paxton, a vocal opponent of LGBTQ rights, issued an opinion Friday declaring court orders to change sex on driver’s licenses and birth certificates "void" and saying altered documents must be changed back.
Ken Paxton opinion says state IDs cannot be changed to accommodate transgender Texans
The Texas Department of Public Safety requested the opinion in September, about a month after it stopped accepting court orders to change gender markers on driver’s licenses. The Department of State Health Services also stopped allowing gender changes on birth certificates unless the hospital made an error.
Paxton: Courts cannot order agencies to issue 'transgender' driver’s licenses, IDs
Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion finding that state district courts do not have the constitutional authority to direct government agencies to change a person’s biological sex on government-issued identification documents,
Texas AG says courts can’t force state agencies to update trans people’s IDs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared Friday that state court orders to change the sex markers on Texas birth certificates, driver’s licenses and other state-issued IDs are no longer valid.

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Texas AG demands state agencies revoke gender-marker changes
State judges have granted Texans' requests to change their gender markers on state documents. But Ken Paxton’s legal opinion, ...
Paxton says state agencies don't have to comply with orders to change person's sex on government documents
Paxton's response follows a request from Texas DPS over whether it was allowed to make those changes to a driver's license.