Big Brother is watching you... this is right out of authoritarian government handbook. Down in Texas are scanning driver license for people who changed their gender markers!
The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver's licenses to help.
The Texas NewsroomBy Lauren McGaughy
December 15, 2025The 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.
This is the most draconian attack yet!
An agency spokesperson did not respond to questions about why the list was created and whether it was shared with any other agencies or state officials. The Texas Newsroom filed records requests in an attempt to find the answers but did not receive any additional information that sheds light on what the state may be doing with these names.
Why was this secret? Why did they hide this?
The Advocate wrote,
LGBTQ+ and transgender activists are concerned. “No Texan should unknowingly have their personal information collected, especially when those who are collecting it are unable or unwilling to say why they are collecting it,” Texas House LGBTQ Caucus Chair Jessica González said in a statement to The Advocate. “Trans and nonbinary Texans are consistently targets of harmful government overreach, hateful rhetoric, and violence, simply because they live authentically. This unnecessary collection of personal information is dangerous and sets a horrible precedent of state-sanctioned surveillance that can, and will, be used by [Gov.] Greg Abbott against any of our Texan neighbors, should he decide to.”
This is so wrong! This is a witch hunt! What are they going to do with the data? When will the other shoe drop?
“The state collecting this information raises a lot of red flags, not just in terms of people's privacy and ability to exist not under a magnifying glass,” Landon Richie, policy coordinator at the Transgender Education Network of Texas, told The Texas Newsroom. He wonders “how this information will be leveraged in terms of drafting and crafting additional legislation” to oppress trans Texans, he added.
Unfortunately this hasn't ended for those trans people in Texas. I worry what will happen if Trump got a hold of this... will he search the Social Security database?
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