DPS {Texas Department of Public Safety} enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests

The Dallas Voice ^ | Aug 21, 2024 | Tammye Nash

[Salman]

According to a Texas Department of Public Safety internal email, a copy of which was sent to Dallas Voice through a local attorney, DPS has — unilaterally and without any public notice — decided to stop amending gender markers on Texas driver licenses and state ID cards.

The email also indicates that the DPS will create a database of all individuals who request to have the gender marker on their license or ID changed.

The policy change follows an earlier request from Texas Attorney General that DPS provide his office with records from individuals who had had gender markers corrected on their license or ID. At the time, because DPS was not able to differentiate between changes based on a court order and those made to correct clerical errors, the agency was not able to provide Paxton with the information he wanted.

This new policy appears to be implemented to create the database Paxton asked for.

The email, which has been verified by an attorney, was dated Aug. 20. It ordered that “Effective immediately, the Department will not accept court orders or amended birth certificates issued that change the sex when it differs from the documentation already on file.”

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[crusty old prospector]

Yay, us!

[ConservaTexan]

“XX” and “XY” would end this madness.

[mabarker1]

Now the DPS needs to automatically give Citations for trying to use False Identity’s.

[Weirdad]

Just FYI, for our non-article readers, here is the article source, "The Premier Media Source for LGBTQ Texas," (they left off the + sign or the other 21 letter...) which based on its header and several other democrat articles, is less than conservative:

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[Deaf Smith]

“DPS will create a data base for all individuals who have requested to have the gender maker on their license or ID changed.”

Good move by the Texas DPS.

Now all Texas Peace Officers will know during traffic stops that they will be making contact with persons professed to be mentally ill.

[fwdude]

I’ll see your “unilaterally and without any public notice” and raise it by 100’s of unilaterally and without any public notice edicts issued by Dem fascist governors and presidents.

[fwdude]

Yes. Stop using “gender“ to define this field and just say SEX. Even the gender cult is on record admitting that sex is not the same thing as gender.