Marta GómezDec 14, 2022
Eva

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has reportedly asked for a list of everyone who changed their sex on state documents in the past two years. Why? Paxton's office hasn't said. When asked for docs, they said none exist.

I'm sure it's no big deal. They just want a list of transgender people in Texas so they can send them milk and cookies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/

Texas attorney general’s office sought state data on transgender Texans

The effort to obtain data came as Attorney General Ken Paxton, Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders have marshaled resources against transgender Texans.

The Washington Post
Dec 14, 2022 at 7:50pmWeb
Show threadChristian GrausDec 14, 2022
@evacide Jesus Christ.
Show threadMatthew GracieDec 14, 2022
@evacide He's the one who is under indictment, correct?
Show threadGreg KempDec 14, 2022
@blueteamgoon @evacide Seven years, and still awaiting trial on felony securities fraud charges.
Show threadMy name is Gloria ActuallyDec 15, 2022
@evacide @blueteamgoon yup. Since 2015
Show threadTobias FiebigDec 14, 2022
@evacide There are regular complaints about German bureaucracy... inefficient, slow... no cross state/department comms... lots of paper... and people just miss that _this_ is actually the threat model that whole system was designed around. -.-'
Show threadMike TalonDec 14, 2022

@evacide Horrifying, but at least they're sticking to public info... for the moment...

Still NOT good.

Show threadMeecheDec 14, 2022
@evacide How is this guy not in prison!!
Show threadGNU/overfloDec 14, 2022
@evacide and this is EXACTLY why we should not collect and save data on people.
Show threadpanthermodernDec 14, 2022
@evacide Under no FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES should anyone give them any information.
Show threadBonnie SchwertnerDec 14, 2022
@evacide My state is a shitshow. One of the biggest crooks stays popular with the freak-show Christian Nationalists.
Show threadRadicalWoman111Dec 14, 2022
@evacide
Sounds like LGBTQ Texans have grounds for a lawsuit. Attorney Mark Zaid is who they want to call.
Show threadSad dev (they/them)Dec 14, 2022

@evacide #Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reportedly requested a list of everyone who changed their sex on state documents in the past two years. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #alphabetMafia #trans #transRights

Reported in the Washington Post (behind paywall)

Show threadFrank CoteDec 14, 2022
@IpswichTriptych @evacide holy crap! The GOP is doubling down on ugly.
Show threadMike MolDec 14, 2022
@evacide you couldn't pay me enough to live in Texas at this point. And, frankly, I wouldn't want to drive through it now, either. Flight stopover is probably OK, but also easily avoidable...
Show threadMarie 🥃Dec 14, 2022
@evacide she needs to be out of office.
Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Dec 14, 2022
@evacide Does the US not have any data protection laws that would prohibit this data from being disclosed? In the UK/EU disseminating that kind of personal data would be unlawful.
Show threadSTEMTheBleedingDec 15, 2022

@steve @evacide The US is a lot like the EU: 50 individual governments with one big body coordinating everything that goes in-between them.

So unfortunately, no. Governors are effectively Presidents in their states, right down to the use of their national guards.

Show threadSteve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺Dec 16, 2022
@STEMtheBleeding @evacide In the EU, data protection law is set by the EU. Member states can't just opt-out.
Show threadCallie LarenDec 14, 2022
@evacide Being stuck in Texas for now (and with my name and gender marker change pending in court) this worries me greatly.
Show threadgavinisdie Dec 14, 2022
@evacide probably gonna use it to eventually arrest them for being trans, I think Texas is becoming a threat to freedom and democracy in the US
Show threadAnna NicholsonDec 14, 2022
@evacide I boosted the preceding post at first, and then I thought that it’s just the sort of content that I’d rather have seen hidden behind a content warning
Show threadSabineDec 14, 2022
@evacide this article is insanely disturbing
Show threadv̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾Dec 14, 2022
@evacide anyone who scoffs at the idea that we don't live in a state teetering on fascism is a jackass
Show threadsemiquaverDec 14, 2022
@evacide the playbook would be to bring child abuse or endangerment charges against parents or medical providers. My fear is that they are looking for a winnable test case.l
Show threadSmellbringerDec 14, 2022
@evacide Oh, a registry, those always end well. /s
Show threadRoryDec 14, 2022
@evacide FFS
Show threadKaren Lopez 🌎👩‍💻🔒Dec 15, 2022
@evacide @vmcintosh boosted. But I so want a boost + comment on this.
Show threadDamnKimberleeDec 15, 2022
@evacide I’d like a list of all the people who have not been screwed by Ken Paxton. Want to guess which list is shorter and which list is none of our business?
Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Dec 15, 2022

@evacide

I would call this #unconstitutional #profiling of people due to sex

Show threadNance CedarDec 15, 2022
@evacide so sick of Texas.
Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xanDec 15, 2022
@evacide really love to live in a place where the information i need to learn about the way the government wishes to kill me is behind a paywall
Show threadGypsyintheskyDec 15, 2022
@evacide interesting
Show threadPalinDec 15, 2022
@evacide Ken Paxton is a corrupt bitch!
What are Texans thinking?
Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Dec 15, 2022
@evacide It boggles the mind that this man is still an elected individual and continues to be elected.
Show threadSocialistStanDec 15, 2022
@sri @evacide This faith in 'voting will solve it' is going to get us killed.
Show threadSuzanne EvansDec 15, 2022
@evacide
Someday I pray to understand why so much evil exists in public office. How in the world did these people get elected, are the people in Texas so morally bankrupt that want people who are different to be put in danger? None of this makes sense to me, it's 2022 for heavens sake, we should be past this.
Show threadBurntJergensDec 15, 2022
@evacide what’s wrong with keeping track of all the mentally ill people?
Show threadSteve WildsmithDec 15, 2022

@evacide I've said many times, organisations need to stop asking for sex / gender on their forms. In almost all cases, it's irrelevant to the services being offered. I used to work in library systems, and I saw no basis for the question, since all sexes get the same service.

My university, in an attempt to appear progressive, introduced an alternative X category in addition to M and F. But they should have simply stopped asking the question, since it has no relevance and is nobody's business.

Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Dec 15, 2022

@evacide and if any of Paxton's fellow travelers are smugly thinking this won't affect them, they should check their driver's licenses. Mine had me listed as F (I'm a cis M) for about ten years. I never even noticed it until a few years ago.

I wouldn't wish state persecution on anyone, but it gives me a cold little flicker of amusement to imagine one of Paxton's bigoted supporters finding himself the target of the Texas Department of Dirty Tricks because some DMV clerk hit the wrong key.

Show threadEmily ClarkDec 15, 2022
@evacide what the actual hell??
Show threadSocialistStanDec 15, 2022
@evacide This sounds like how genocides get started, this is not good.
Show threadJeffDec 15, 2022
@evacide wouldn't be surprised if insurance companies found a way to exploit this.
Show threadInfiniteOneDec 15, 2022
@evacide This is beyond frightening. Fascist behavior.
Show threadjaeDec 15, 2022
@evacide that criminal is supported by the the governor. both deplorable.
Show threadSir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️Dec 15, 2022
@evacide whoa
Show threadgft77Dec 15, 2022
@evacide Maybe the plan is to simply have transgender folks wear an armband to identify themselves in public. Republicans should be ashamed of the hate and discrimination they show towards those in the trans community and other LGBT citizens.
Show threadMatthew KnowltonDec 15, 2022
@evacide The scariest part is the fact that they lied about making such requests. This needs a federal investigation.
Show threadToasty Fun BunsDec 15, 2022
@evacide horrifying :(
Show threadGinsuDec 15, 2022
@evacide The US Census has been recording ethnicities for how long now? The government(s) here have *always* collected information specifically for the purpose of persecution.
Show threadjunkDec 16, 2022
@evacide It would be so nice if this felt surprising. I recently left Texas, after about a decade. Couldn't take it any more. Every time there was a glimmer of hope that the old guard would change, they'd vote these pieces of shit back in. If only that secession thing was real (it's not) and we could let that state become just an unfriendly neighboring country, the rest of us would be better off.
Show threadPeachie Dec 16, 2022
@evacide if this ain't dystopian as fuck I dunno what is
Show threadPaul GDec 17, 2022
@evacide this has always been my biggest fear, and now that it is real and occurring, I need to step up as a queer elder. I’ve stood back in the shadows, whispering gently about policy for too long. Being a baby queer taught me so much opsec I never knew I had.