Records obtained by The Washington Post show 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 license.
FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a rally in support of President Donald Trump called the"Save America Rally" in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Florida, Georgia, Texas and Virginia all started new law enforcement units to investigate voter fraud in this years elections based on former President Donald Trumps lies about the 2020 presidential contest. So far, those units seem to have produced more headlines than actual cases.
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. According to records obtained by the Post, DPS staff members repeatedly referred to the request as coming from the attorney general’s office as they discussed attempting to narrow the data to include only licenses that had been altered to reflect a court-ordered change in someone’s gender.
Brian Klosterboer, an attorney at the ACLU of Texas, said this request of information was “highly unusual" and a violation of privacy. Abbott has followed other Republican governors in signing legislation that bans transgender youth from participating in public school sports teams that do not align with their sex assigned at birth.
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