Texas Republican Ken Paxton Sought To Get List Of Every Transgender Person In State

Texas Republican Ken Paxton Sought To Get List Of Every Transgender Person In State
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Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has recently made a stunning and spine-chilling request for a list of every trans person in Texas, according to a report from The Washington Post.

The data that Paxton’s office seeks includes personal information such as a driver’s license. The Texas Department of Public Safety had reportedly received a request back in June from the attorney general’s office.

The email request, as reported by the Post states that the office was requesting a “total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the Texas DPS driver license division chief wrote in a June email. “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.”

More than 16,000 instances had been identified before the department concluded that a manual search would be needed in order to determine the reason for the changes, as told to the Post by DPS spokesperson Travis Considine.

“Ultimately, our team advised prosecutors that the data requested neither existed nor could be accurately produced,” he said.

“Therefore no data was provided.”

It’s been reported that the request did not go through official channels and was instead made directly to the driver’s license division.

Texan Republicans On War Path

The reason behind the request has not been made clear but speculation made by the LGBTQ+ community points to attempts at restricting the ability for transgender Texans to transition.

This isn’t the first time the LGBTQ+ community has seen Texan Republicans attempt to crack down on their rights; as it was only last year that Governor Greg Abbott brought in new legislation banning transgender children from participating in sports in the gender they identified as in public schools.

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