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The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help (www.houstonpublicmedia.org)

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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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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 52 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

No it's not, it's crystal clear.

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I know it's not the biggest deal out of all the awful shit going on, but man this pisses me off. The journalistic institution, top-to-bottom, is utterly failing to accurately report on anything that is going on, seemingly out of fear of sounding "overly alarmist". Time and time again the would-be alarmist statement turns out to be true, and yet they do not learn.

Every so-called journalist and news institution is directly responsible for the fall of democracy because they abdicated their duty to inform the public of what is actually going on. You can literally open any history book covering 1930s Germany to get factual material on why this is bad. Not doing so is a journalistic and moral failure of the highest order and I'm tired of pretending this is what "journalistic integrity" looks like.

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

"I might get sued for libel 🥺🥺🥺" winning out over "literal fascists are doing fascist things in 'the land of the free'"

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Not doing so is a journalistic and moral failure of the highest order and I’m tired of pretending this is what “journalistic integrity” looks like.

Well, look at how terrible they were about vetting Donvict prior to/during his first run. Most Americans knew about Donvict from his stupid game show and the "liberal media" did nearly nothing at all to disabuse them of that notion.

And pretending that the racist nutbars that were screaming about how the "liberal media" didn't properly "vet" Obama (meaning, how did the Blah guy even win??!!!) had some kind of valid complaint, meaning bothsidering racist dipshits and claiming that anyone showing concern about the mobbed-up, washed-up total failson were just being alarmists, etc.

They've been terrible at how to deal with Donvict and his mobbed up apparatchiks for at least a decade now.