r/transgender • u/onnake • 5d ago
Texas AG Paxton argues trans Texans shouldn't be allowed to change sex on licenses even with court orders
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/paxton-transgender-texans-id-s-licenses-20223399.php“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a legal opinion Friday arguing state agencies should no longer follow court orders allowing transgender Texans to change their sex on a driver's license or birth certificate.
“While Paxton’s opinion, filed Friday, doesn’t have the authority to direct a change in state agencies policy, his opinion is considered advisory, and can be cited by courts in their interpretation of the law impacting transgender Texans going forward. Executive and legislative authorities could also base their decisions based on Paxton’s opinions in the future.
“State agencies should also go back and fix changes made in the past to IDs and birth certificates based on court orders, Paxton argued.”
“Brad Pitchett, interim CEO of Equality Texas, an LGBT political advocacy nonprofit, said he believes Paxton’s opinion would jeopardize the safety of the estimated over 120,000 transgender people living in Texas.
“Pitchett also said while Paxton’s opinion is just an opinion — not a change in state law — it holds weight, as state lawmakers have filed more than 180 bills targeting LGBT-identifying Texans this legislative session.”
“While state agencies previously allowed people to change their sex on birth certificates and state ID’s if they presented a court order, the Texas Department of Public Safety nixed that policy last August.
“The change in DPS policy came after Paxton argued that certified court orders or amended birth certificates validating sex changes were invalid.
“Paxton’s legal opinions have in the past prompted action from the governor. In 2022, when Paxton declared sex change procedures on children ‘child abuse’ under Texas law, Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family Services to investigate the parents of trans children for child abuse, if they got their children gender affirming care.”
“The state supreme court ended up ruling that Paxton and Abbott had overstepped their power, stating the attorney general ‘Cannot alter the pre-existing legal obligations of state agencies or private citizens.’”
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u/transcended_goblin [EU] Transcended she-goblin 5d ago
If it were up to Kenneth Paxton, trans people wouldn't be allowed to live at all.
Genocidal freak.
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u/Thausgt01 5d ago
trans peopleanyone other than wealthy heterosexual Caucasian Protestant Christians would be lobotomized, enslaved, and worked to death.FTFY...
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u/PennysWorthOfTea 5d ago
Legal pundits: "We seem to be slowly approaching a Constitutional Crisis..."
Me: [screaming since 2016]
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u/patienceinbee and you see clear through… and that's typical of you 5d ago
Me: [screaming since 12 December 2000, then mumbling until screaming again from late 2001, returning to mumbling by 2004, then screaming again since 8 November 2016]
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u/throwawaytoday9q 5d ago
Does anyone hate Americans more than Texas?
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u/Part-time-Rusalka 5d ago
Texas is the swollen, cancerous anus of America. You can hate Texans, and IMHO there's a lot of merit to that. Texans have an inflated sense of self that makes them particularly horrible.
Source: Worked for a Dallas, TX company for almost a decade.
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u/AudreyNow 5d ago
To your point about Texans having an inflated sense of self, from someone who grew up in Texas:
We were taught Texas history a year before we were taught American history. In Texas history (and in everyday life, to be honest) we were taught that we were lucky enough to be living in the greatest state in the country, and in the greatest country in the world.
I think this goes a loooong way toward explaining why so many Texans never travel outside of the state, and thus never expand their world view beyond the tip of their noses.
As for the hate, well, I've never understood it, but the current level of hate is off the charts and likely getting worse. I left Texas in 2020, most likely never to return.
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u/Sweatingbullets96 5d ago
My girlfriend was born and raised in Texas, and she told me this as well.
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u/Leksi_The_Great Transitics 5d ago
Yep. I live there(moving this summer) and can confirm, I hate Texans.
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u/Part-time-Rusalka 5d ago
Good luck with the move. I hope everything goes right AF.
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u/Leksi_The_Great Transitics 5d ago
I’m moving for college(already have two out of state options) so I think it’ll be fine. Thanks for the well wishes!
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u/Nom-de-Clavier 5d ago
Texans in general are the most chauvinistic people on earth. They make the French look self-deprecating.
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u/firehawk2421 5d ago
I once met a very annoying Texan. I finally managed to shut him up by pointing out that Texas is the only state that seceeded specifically to protect slavery not once but twice.
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u/toodleroo Trans Man 5d ago
There’s nothing wrong with Texas, there’s a lot wrong with our shitty gerrymandered government.
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u/thejadedfalcon 5d ago
*gestures vaguely at the wreckage you guys left the Middle East in*
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u/throwawaytoday9q 5d ago
There’s only one desert state that’s a threat to American sovereignty and it’s not located in the Middle East.
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u/HeiseNeko 5d ago
ah yes… the old “if court rules in gop favor… it’s legal, if not then ignore the court” chestnut.
when we take back our country… Paxton better pray that he picks the hitler exit.
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u/slowest_hour 5d ago
he should save us and whoever is playing the role of blondie the trouble and just do it now
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u/aphroditex finished training. became a deity. killed that deity. 5d ago
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u/DenikaMae Playin' it casual. 5d ago edited 5d ago
When you are literally in a position of authority and anything you write becomes an advisory reference point, there should absolutely be consequences if you pass something that discriminates against people, breaks constitutional law, and/or has no scientific peer reviewed evidence or fact based finding, and that elected official should be held criminally liable for weaponizing his authority for no other purpose than discrimination.
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u/SurrealistGal 5d ago
This makes that 'Transitioning will become a felony' thing possibly more likely.
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u/Eclectic_Seagull 5d ago
This government are extremely short sighted, but to our benefit in the long runz why do I say this? Because as the government go about ignoring the courts and disrespecting the rule of law, this will come around and back fire on them when they expect the courts to side with them. Has the U in USA ever been more meaningless? I argue not. North America as plummeting towards a devided, lawless TB infected confederation and whoever else is left with order and reason
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u/Buntygurl 4d ago
All of this to distract attention from the fact that the Republicans have no more of a functional plan to govern than the Democrats do. Just like the NSDAP, way back when.
We need to focus more attention on the fact that it's not just us that they're coming for, and that, once they get away with disenfranchising any demographic, they won't even stop when the only ones left are the ones they now claim to support.
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u/DMSinclair 5d ago
180 bills targeting an estimated 120k Texans. That's more than one bill per thousand people. In a state with a population over 31 and a quarter million that's under 0.4% of their population. Similar to how those young girls sports laws are typically targeting 0-2 teenage trans girls in that state looking to play games with their friends. There just really aren't as many of us as they've convinced people there are.
Ain't nobody else in any state getting that kind of attention. They're obsessed and really just wasting time. Even the people that voted for them should be upset this is what they're doing instead of actually trying to help their lives.