In 2023, the Texas House declined to pass Senate Bill 162, which would have prevented changes to the sex marker on a minor’s birth certificate but still allowed an adult Texan to update their own.

Texas has for 7 years said it won’t accept Mexican identification cards when issuing birth certificates for children of people in the U.S. illegally.

After years of frustration, some families are finally seeing progress in correcting errors on birth certificates issued by ...

Texas’ Failure on Birth-Certificate Gender Changes Is an International Problem Texas, along with Iran, China and North Korea, is blacklisted by the U.K. for its undefined process for transgender ...

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The birth mother is on the birth certificate while the biological mother is not. Texas is under court order to correct this disparity in the way same-sex couples with children are treated.

Immigrant Melida Patricio Castro from Honduras shows a birth certificate for her daughter Maria Celeste, 2, to a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the U.S.-Mexico border on July 24, 2014 near Mission ...

Birth certificates can be purchased in person at City Hall, with same-day pickup available during business hours.

Texas born adoptees can’t access their original birth certificates until they’re 18. Even then, they have to already know the names of both of their birth parents.

More than two dozen immigrant parents in South Texas sued the state this year on behalf of 32 children they claim had been denied birth certificates and access to vital services.