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A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won't say what they're using the list for.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40877161

A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list for.

The state of Texas has continued collecting information on transgender drivers seeking to change the sex listed on their licenses, creating a list of more than 100 people in one year.

According to internal documents The Texas Newsroom obtained through records requests, the Texas Department of Public Safety has amassed a list of 110 people who tried to update their gender between August 2024 and August 2025. Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account. Identifying information was redacted from the records released to The Texas Newsroom.

The data was collected after Texas stopped allowing drivers to update the gender on their licenses unless it was to fix a clerical error. It is unclear what the state is doing with this information.

  • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    7 hours ago

    As a trans Texan, I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that many of our highest ranking state politicians are extremely hostile to people in the LGBTQ+ community and actively want us gone one way or another. Wanting to believe the best in someone is fine in general, but know who you are advocating for. These people have a history which paints a very dystopian picture of their intentions and we don’t currently have a federal government willing to stop them. Do I think they are making literal “kill lists”? No, I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but this is a strongly indicative prelude to that extreme. If they are making a list of a group of minorities, it’s almost guaranteed it will be used for discriminatory (or flat out criminal) purposes.

    • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world
      16·
      6 hours ago

      I recognize that, but, thats not what this is. They are recording the names of people who made the change request on their ID. There are more than 100k trans people in Texas. There are 110 names on the list… Obviously I’m the dissenting opinion here, I’m okay with that. However, a list recording change requests is being treated as an imminent attack on all trans people of texas.