BREAKING NEWS: DPS enacts policy refusing court-ordered gender marker changes, will create database of marker change requests
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.
