According to a newspaper report published Wednesday, the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver’s licenses. Civil rights attorneys have described it as worrying.
The Washington Post reported that public records obtained by the newspaper do not indicate why Paxton’s office requested information from the Texas Department of Public Safety. In June, the head of the driver’s license division told colleagues to compile the “total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months.”
A DPS spokesperson told the Post that no data was ultimately handed over because it could not be accurately produced.
Texas Republicans for years have been at the forefront of efforts to restrict transgender rights. The request came months after Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered child welfare officials to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse, a move that Paxton’s office backed in a legal opinion.
DPS found over 16,000 gender changes over the past two years, but officials said a manual search would have been required to determine the reason for each one.
Texas Republicans have also filed legislation to prohibit a change of sex on birth certificates for minors, following in the steps of states that include neighboring Oklahoma.
Homophobic Texas AG Ken Paxton Asks For Gender Change Info From Drivers Licenses
- Dan Rios
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