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.
They don’t start out as kill lists. They start out as persecution lists. Then to incarceration lists “for their own good”. Then the real mistreatment begins with assault, rape, starvation. The final solution is a kill list.
We’ve seen this exact progression of events with immigrants. It started with illegals, then legal ones. At first they were deported to their home country, then to any country that would take them.
This is not unprecedented. This is how it happens throughout history. A fascist government making lists of citizens is the first step.
But its not like they went out looking for trans people. They kept the names of the 110 people who sent change requests. Those are the only people on the list and based on current info, that list isnt growing. Again its just as likely, if not more so, that bureaucratic bullshit SOP’s require them to keep lists like that. Id be willing to bet they have a list of every person who requested an ID update.