Texas HB2291 mandates the inclusion of biological sex on birth certificates and restricts changes to that information.
Texas HB2291 amends the Health and Safety Code to require birth certificates to include a space for recording the biological sex of a person as either male or female. It mandates that the biological sex, determined by sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile, be listed on the birth certificate. The bill prohibits changing the biological sex on a birth certificate unless it corrects a clerical error, completes missing information, or updates the sex of a person with atypical or ambiguous sex characteristics after determination.
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