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May 5, 2011
Two years after Texas became one of the last states to allow transgender people to use proof of their surgery to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock.
Proposed legislation would prohibit county and district clerks from using a court order recognizing a surgery as documentation to get married, effectively requiring the state to recognize a 1999 state appeals court decision that said in cases of marriage, gender is assigned at birth and sticks with a person throughout their life, even if they have surgery.
Most states allow transgender people to get married using a court order that also allows them to change their driver’s license, experts said.
