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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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[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Oh for sure the Democrats have gone closet fascist.. An American "liberal" politician is a centerist by EU standards.. but we have to work with the system and monkeywrench it as best we can until it breaks.

Just saying the two party system is rigged (Yeah, know that) offers no real solution. Saying "don't vote" is how we ended up in this place as too many sit out.

I for one can't wait until the current crop of Democrats - gastly old bats like Nancy Pelosi, and the Chuck Schumers of the party - leave. The party is tied as long as the voters keep re-electing fossils.

Thing is, I AM a registered Republican that voted straight Democratic ticket for the last three elections, and I stay on the GOP rolls to get the press for the new candidates locally. I'm seeing exactly ZERO new GOP candidates that offer anything of value to the public, I see more coming from the new wave of Democrats.

Yes, you are 1,000% correct on the point at the federal level. The issue is money in the big elections and until the push happens to overturn Citizen's United, things won't change.

Personally I've been agitating for a general boycott and consumer strike for years - which could really sting the government - but getting the conformist, consumerist public on board with that is unlikely to happen until there is no more middle class.