The Texas Department of Public Safety rule change surfaced in an internal email that also asks driver license staff to compile the names of people seeking a gender marker change.
DPS no longer accepting court orders or amended birth certificates to change gender on Texas driver’s licenses or IDTexasTransgender Texans can no longer change the sex on their driver’s license to align with their gender identity — even if they present the state with a certified court order or an amended birth certificate verifying the change, according to an internal agency email.on Wednesday.
Transgender Texans are now effectively barred from obtaining an accurate foundational government document and could become especially vulnerable to discrimination and harassment, said Ian Pittman, an Austin attorney who works with transgender Texans. The change has also raised privacy concerns from advocates of transgender people who worry their personal information will be used with malicious intent.
Employees are also instructed to “scan into the record” court orders or other documentation relating to the sex change request.at DPS to compile a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their Texas driver’s licenses and other department records.and the attorney general had been pressing to limit the rights of transgender people.
“Texans will now be subject to involuntary surveillance for simply trying to update a government document,” Pritchett said in a statement. “There is no clear reason why this information would be useful to the DPS nor is there a legitimate reason to deny gender marker updates on driver’s licenses.”
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