The Republican Party of Texas is calling for “gender identity fraud” to be a punishable criminal activity in Texas.

According to a resolution from party leadership, “the so-called gender transition surgery of any human in Texas should be recognized as a crime against humanity and a crime against nature.”

The resolution also calls for civil recourse for minors who underwent “gender transition surgeries,” stating that it “should be referred to as mutilation.”

In December, the State Republican Executive Committee passed the resolution and others related to election security, immigration, and military readiness.

The resolution states that those who identify as a different sex knowingly participate in “an act of deception […] designed to mask the true gender identity of the individual.”

The party recommends that the legislature act to “outlaw all identity fraud, including any type of bodily and physical deception” and to “give businesses the legal right to remove men who enter women’s spaces from their premises, to give victims the right of legal recourse, and thereby to restore honor in the state of Texas.”

The Department of Public Safety previously allowed Texans to change sexes on their driver’s license so long as they brought “an original certified court order or an amended birth certificate verifying the change.” That policy changed last year.

Several Republican members of the 89th Legislature have introduced legislation addressing biological sex and identification in government documents through the resolution.

State Sen. Bob Hall (R-Rockwall) filed Senate Bill 84 requiring government documents to reference only two sexes–male and female–and define those biologically. State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston) also recently filed Senate Bill 753, which makes referrals to out-of-state practitioners of gender surgery on children a felony.

Meanwhile, in the House, State Rep. Ellen Troxclair (R-Austin) filed House Bill 229, which provides specific definitions for all traditional family roles and requires government entities to identify individuals as male or female for statistical compilations. State Rep. Valoree Swanson (R-Houston) also filed House Bill 477, which requires all birth certificates to reflect sex and prohibits changes to a minor’s sex on birth certificates.

The 89th Legislative Session begins January 14.

Ian Camacho

Ian Camacho graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and is a Precinct Chair for the McLennan County Republican Party. Follow him on X @RealIanCamacho and Substack (iancamacho.substack.com)

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