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December 21, 2022

Texas AG Paxton Wants to Build A Registry Of Trans People, But He Won't Say Why

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/12/texas-ag-paxton-wants-to-build-a-registry-of-trans-people-but-he-wont-say-why/

But we can't have a registry of gun owners, because ... CONSTITUTION!

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton keeps finding new and creative ways to be horrible.

The famously corrupt official loves to bash immigrants, of course, but he takes particular zeal in endangering the LGBTQ+ community. He’s already tried to classify medically approved gender affirming care for trans kids as child abuse and threatened drag performers who allow kids to attend their shows. And now it looks like he’s got transgender adults in his sights, too.

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.

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