Texas attorney general's office sought state data on transgender Texans

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HOUSTON — Employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety in June received a sweeping request from Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office: to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s licenses and other department records during the past two years.

“Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the chief of the DPS driver license division emailed colleagues in the department on June 30, according to a copy of a message obtained by The Washington Post through a public records request. “We won’t need DL/ID numbers at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents.”

After more than 16,000 such instances were identified, DPS officials determined that a manual search would be needed to determine the reason for the changes, DPS spokesperson Travis Considine told The Post in response to questions.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/12/14/ken-paxton-transgender-texas-data/

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WTF Texas? Why do you need this information? I fear it's more than who uses what bathroom.

[Ways]

1. Blue dog

Go to Living Blue in Texas! All the information you need!

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2. Neither the Governor nor the Attorney General has statutory authority to directly control DFPS's inv

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[Pete Ross Junior]

3. Fixing to round them up, is that it? n/t

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4. Wearing Stars?

I am so scared for the future of our transgender citizens in Red states. I can see them being rounded up and sent to re-education camps and having to wear some kind of star on their clothes.
I'm much closer to the end of my life and can only hope that the country turns away from this

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6. Stonewall Dallas Outraged by Paxton's Data Overreach Targeting Transgender Texans

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