The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing this week where the discussion and debate centered on birth certificates and the ability to amend an individual’s sex based on gender identity.
Senate Bill (SB) 406, introduced by Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), seeks to regulate how biological sex is recorded by prohibiting future changes to an individual’s sex on Texas birth certificates. The term “biological sex of a child” is defined in the legislation as being determined by “sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile.”
