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.

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[–] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is unclear what the state is doing with this information.

Seems clear to me: the state will abuse transfolk to pander to its cretinous base. I mean, Jesus said "be cruel to others", right?

[–] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

There’s no hate like Christian love.