Mississippi Gov. Reeves signed SB 2322 requiring driver's licenses to show sex assigned at birth and nullifying court-ordered gender changes

On April 8, 2026, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2322 into law after the Legislature passed it earlier in the 2026 regular session. The law requires that the sex designation on every Mississippi driver's license reflect the holder's sex as determined at birth, and it provides that a court order recognizing a change of gender "shall have no effect" on the sex indicated on a license. The statute allows a change to that designation only in narrow circumstances — a scrivener's error, a documented disorder of sex development, or reversal of a previously altered record — and took effect July 1, 2026.

In practice the measure bars transgender Mississippians from obtaining or renewing a driver's license whose sex marker matches their gender identity, and it strips force from state-court orders that had previously permitted such corrections. Unlike a contemporaneous Kansas law, SB 2322 does not retroactively revoke licenses already issued; instead transgender residents are pushed toward mismatched identification at renewal, which can expose them during routine encounters such as traffic stops. Mississippi thereby joined a widening set of states enacting anti-transgender identity-document restrictions during the 2026 legislative cycle.

The law writes a protected characteristic directly into a mandatory government identity document and forecloses a judicial remedy that had been available to transgender residents. This entry records the enactment and its terms; it is distinct from the separately archived Mississippi SB 2114, an immigrant-registry statute Reeves signed the same day.