Ok y’all, speaking of #Texas, I have thoughts about #KenPaxton and the rise of the Christian Nationalists (hereby referred to as: XNats).
Texas does not have a law for changing #gender markers on a driver’s license. The process has been to request a court order for a change, which was then provided to the Texas Department of Public Safety (#DPS).
However, Ken Paxton instructed the DPS to send an internal email instructing staff to no longer change gender markers on #trans people’s driver’s licenses, even if they had a court order or an amended birth certificate.
As well, the DPS is now supposed to annotate the record of anyone requesting a gender change. (They’re making a list, and checking it twice.)
And they want to undo the gender marker corrections trans people have made in the past, stripping every transperson of a valid #ID.
This is real bad, y’all. Real bad.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/21/transgender-texans-drivers-license-DPS