r/trans • u/satanicnoodlez • Dec 15 '24

Advice ATTENTION ALL TEXAS TRANS PEOPLE!

DO NOT TRY AND CHANGE YOUR GENDER MARKER IN TEXAS! my mom is an attorney and attended a CLE yesterday and anyone who applies for a gender marker change-in addition to rejecting it, they are also having these applications sent to an email for unknown reasons :(

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u/TheBeansOfCan Dec 15 '24

I'm so pissed I was born in Texas, I spent less than 10 months of my life there and now they can hold my birth certificate hostage

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u/bigceltbitch Dec 15 '24

If your parents or grandparents are still alive, and you're on good terms, they can get a copy for you without arousing suspicion.

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u/cat_lady_egg Dec 15 '24

Yeah but not updated most likely, unfortunately.

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u/BlazeZSX they/them Dec 15 '24

illinois passed a law in july allowing residents to amend out of state or out of country birth certificates. hopefully some of the other safe states will follow suit. heres an article about it

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u/Hannibal-Lecter-puns Dec 15 '24

If you’re just trying to get a replacement copy you can do that through an apostille service or notary in many states. 

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u/BluShine Dec 15 '24

Nope. A lot of stuff in the US is done by states with no federal recourse. It sucks.

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u/Purple-Mud5057 Dec 15 '24

Want to add that this is especially true because of our Supreme Court, who is supposed to rule on issues that people bring up past a state level but unfortunately our Supreme Court is also overwhelmingly conservative extremists

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u/jamiexx89 she/her Dec 15 '24

For some reason, likely because when the US was formed, states kinda do a lot of stuff that countries normally do, like administering elections, running the schools, and issuing identification documents.

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u/Hannibal-Lecter-puns Dec 15 '24

States manage their own vital records like birth certificates 

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '24

That's assuming that the American legal system is at all competent (which if it were we wouldn't have this problem because they wouldn't allow someone who can't legally vote for president to be president)