In an environment where my fellow trans people are routinely degraded and smeared as "groomers", creating a thing like a 'registry' for trans people but not for handguns tells you exactly who the AG thinks the enemy is.<p>And the next Uvalde is right around the corner. But no. The attention is on what's in my pants.
> The Washington Post reports that Paxton’s office made a verbal request to the Texas Department of Public Safety in June for a list of everyone in the past two years who’d changed their gender on their drivers license. Texas has strong public records laws, but the Post’s request to the AG’s office for communications came up empty. It was only DPS which documented the request in writing.<p>> “Need total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months, broken down by month,” the DPS head of the drivers license division wrote in a June 30 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.”
Interesting. I suppose it's because the Texas DMV potentially has consolidated record keeping whereas going to each Texas county court house records keeping has potentially more overhead and is a much larger project?<p>Changing a gender marker on a driver's license like most(all?) US states requires the presentation of a court order, the original of which is kept in each county's court records department. The Texas AG could theoretically request such court orders from each county in the state and get the same information. If Texas is anything like my state (CA) such records are accessible to the public unless sealed which is a rather uncommon practice(usually held for minors).
> <i>But we can't have a registry of gun owners, because ... CONSTITUTION!</i><p>> <i>new and creative ways to be horrible</i><p>> <i>famously corrupt official loves to bash immigrants, of course, but he takes particular zeal in endangering the LGBTQ+ community</i><p>Please don't post ATL links, they are almost always sarcastic and over-the-top ragebait.
“The Associated Press called the race in Paxton’s favor just before 11:30 p.m. election night. Paxton received 4,268,826 votes (53.46%), Garza received 3,482,909 (43.62%) and Libertarian Mark Ash received 233,064 (2.92%).<p>Paxton will serve for a third term as the state’s top attorney after taking office in 2015.”
Texas really did lose its goddamn mind when Trump didn't get a second term. It's gone from Yosemite Sam evil to "compile a list of the untermenschen" evil.