What trans and nonbinary people need to know about updating their passports and birth certificates
Trans and nonbinary people are able to update their passports with the sex marker that aligns with their gender identity as of June 17.
JULY 8, 2025
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Trans and nonbinary people are able to update their passports with the sex marker that aligns with their gender identity as of June 17.
Brad Pritchett, interim CEO of Equality Texas, said the move would “jeopardize the safety of the nearly 100 thousand trans people” who live in Texas.
A state district court granted a preliminary injunction blocking prohibitions on changes on the gender markers on driver's licenses and birth certificates.
Kansas will require state-issued ID to view "acts of homosexuality" beginning July 1, which is considered "harmful to minors" under state law.
The new rule mirrors an old rule which was defeated in court.
A federal judge agreed with Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach.
The parents are fighting back, however.
Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.
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This is at odds with how the agency has handled this approval process for years.
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The four trans plaintiffs in Tennessee had sought to change the sex designation on their birth certificates.
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Texas has been documenting every request from trans people seeking to update their gender.
As Donald Trump forbids trans people from updating their gender markers at a federal level, Democratic states are making it easier for them to legally change their name and sex.
“We’ve seen over the last several years a militant effort in red states by the government to discriminate against trans folks, in particular, and the broader LGBTQ community, and even to go so far as to try to deny trans people's existence,” said Mike Zamore, national director of policy and governmental affairs at the ACLU.
The move is the latest in a series of states that have tried to launch ways to report transgender issues to authorities; such attempts in other states have not been successful.
Critics say the “women’s bill of rights” is an “erasure” of the trans community in the state.
H.B. 257 would not only ban transgender folks from many public facilities but also call for jail time.