Texas AG Ken Paxton requested list of transgender residents from Department of Public Safety

In a move LGTBTQ+ advocates said could be used to further target transgender Texans, Attorney General Ken Paxton in June sought to collect a list of people who changed their gender on their state driver’s license, the Washington Post reports. According to the bombshell story posted Wednesday, Paxton's office asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide information on people who changed their sex on state documents over the past two years. “We won’t need [driver's license or identification numbers] at first but may need to have them later if we are required to manually look up documents," according to correspondence sent but the AG's office.