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

[moonshinegnomie]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_national&utm_source=reddit.com


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 license 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’s 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.”


paxton and the texas taliban need to start paying a personal price for their actions.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. What next? Rounding trans folks up and tattoing them with numbers on the wrist?

[Initech]

2. Paxton is a fucking ghoul. Fuck the Christian right.

I figured it was a matter of time before the Christian Taliban went full Nazi.

[crickets]

3. Is this even legal? (No paywall link)

https://archive.ph/KmxXV

It seems like an astounding government overreach and violation of privacy, at the very least. Paxton & co. got blocked from going after the kids, so now they're going after the adults? Here's hoping the ACLU and Lamba Legal will be all over this issue as well.

Skeen called the attorney general’s inquiry into driver’s license records “a gross violation of privacy” intended to “target one group of people to fire up their base while transgender people are just trying to live their lives.”

“The constitutional issues that this raises are equal protection and due process under the 14th Amendment as well as discrimination based on sex,” Skeen said.

Some Texas judges seal or restrict access to court records of gender changes for privacy reasons, but also because transgender individuals have been harassed online and faced threats of violence, Skeen said.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

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