In a legal opinion issued Friday, Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered state agencies to "immediately correct" birth certificates or driver's licenses.

The Texas Department of Public Safety requested the opinion in September, about a month after it stopped accepting court orders to change gender markers on driver’s licenses. The Department of State Health Services also stopped allowing gender changes on birth certificates unless the hospital made an error.

Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a legal opinion finding that state district courts do not have the constitutional authority to direct government agencies to change a person’s biological sex on government-issued identification documents,