Texas AG Wanted List Of Every Trans Person In His State

Phaylen Fairchild
4 min readJan 17, 2023

Inching closer and closer to the unimaginable horrors of history, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded a list be compiled of every transgender person in his State. The point of going on such a sinister pursuit of procuring public records of trans residents that had changed their Driver’s License marker, applied for gender marker alterations on documents such as a state ID is unclear leaving the community wondering how Paxton sought to use this master list of all known trans individuals statewide. He has not cared to explain why. “I can’t say.” He replied when asked.

Texas AG Ken Paxton

According to an email obtained by The Washington Post last June, the Attorney General sent a missive insisting Texas Department of Public Safety provide him with the: “Total number of changes from male to female and female to male” on driver’s licenses “for the last 24 months, broken down by month.” This data would have provided names, as well as other identifying information such as home address, social security number, date of birth and photo.

And the Department of Public Safety complied with the bizarre request, compiling a list of 16,466 individuals who had applied for or…

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Phaylen Fairchild

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