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Transgender community targeted before election

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Anti-trans animus will translate into a number on anti-trans bills in the upcoming Legislature DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer Taffet@DallasVoice.com Attorney General Ken Paxton has been targeting the trans community since before Ted Cruz made that community the center of his one-issue re-election campaign.

Over the summer, chief of the Drivers License Division of the Texas Department of Safety issued an order to employees to ignore gender correction orders from judges and stop updating gender markers on state-issued IDs, including drivers licenses.

That directive came after Paxton had requested a list of names of everyone who had their identification updated to reflect their gender and was told such list did not exist.

The head of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a similar directive shortly after, and the head of the DPS has since asked Paxton’s office for a “legal opinion” allowing DPS to go back and undo gender marker and name changes made earlier.

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