Texas might force trans folks to reverse gender changes they've already made on their IDs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-might-force-trans-folks-to-reverse-gender-changes-they-ve-already-made-on-their-ids/ar-AA1rEcDQ?ocid=windirect&cvid=b224fe7026d44d1a9585dbac5db2c7ea&ei=24
Story by Molly Sprayregen (3 Oct 2024)
Transgender Texans who have had the gender markers changed on their IDs may now be at risk of having that change reversed.
In a recent letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw asked whether government agencies could "correct" people's gender markers that had been changed due to what McCraw referred to as their "perceived gender identity." He explicitly asked if it was okay to make these "corrections" even when the change was done with a court order.
In August, DPS revoked trans folks' abilities to change the gender markers on their IDs, even when they have a court order or amended birth certificate. A few weeks later, the state eliminated the ability for transgender people to alter the sex marker on their birth certificates.
The practice of allowing trans people to change their gender markers, he wrote, referring to news reports he read, "seems to be part of a years-long and state-wide effort to alter government records to reflect gender identity" that involves "coaching" trans folks to say they need "corrections" on their IDs rather than "changes."
McCraw wrote that DPS may have changed people's gender markers based on illegal court orders and as such, seeks permission from Paxton to "correct" this "inaccurate sex information."
I still say that people need to take a vacation to another state, change their ID, and then go back to Texas or Missouri (which has the same law). I believe that every state honors a valid out-of-state driver's license or State ID. Texas and Missouri rules have no authority over ID issued by another state.
Yeah, of course it's Texas. That's all you need to know. You aren't going to convince me that the heat in the southern states doesn't boil peoples' brains. Makes them all kinds of screwy. You can't be transgender, it has to be God, or Aliens.
Quote from: Lori Dee on October 03, 2024, 03:41:37 PMI still say that people need to take a vacation to another state, change their ID, and then go back to Texas or Missouri (which has the same law). I believe that every state honors a valid out-of-state driver's license or State ID. Texas and Missouri rules have no authority over ID issued by another state.
We first moved to Arkansas in the early 2000's, then moved out of state in 2006. I changed my name (2018) and birth certificate (2019) via court orders. When we moved back to Arkansas and went to get a new drivers license, they still had my deadname on file. I had to show them the court orders before they would give me a drivers license with my correct name and gender. I guess if you have a friend living in another state and can use their address as your own, it could work. However, you would have to go back to that state to vote, and it may cause issues with your taxes.
Love always -- Jessica Rose
If that photo in the article is the guy who secretly wants to simp to the Mistress of Mediocre fantasy, and very horrible fantasy... at the same time... the guy looks like a very sad frog. Just sayin'. An extremely sad frog.
My understanding is that the federal government issues your passport, and the gender mark may mismatch between the passport and the driver's license of Texas. Here in S. Korea, the local government also issues the international driver's license, which is valid in most of the states of the US.
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Look on the bright side, folks, over the past couple of years there has been a shift in the way these statements are being made. Once upon a time, they wouldn't have bothered coming up with a reason why they wanted to do this, they'd just have done it. Now they have to go through the personal humiliation of justifying themselves so they can hide their motivation in the shadows for fear of ridicule on the world stage.
Here, the DPS director is accusing his own department of conspiring against itself, based on the firmest evidence of all, 'newspaper reports he has read.'
On top of which he's under confident enough of his position to walk the tightrope of semantics in an effort to squeeze through the narrow gap between being honest. As in, 'There is no gain here for Texans, I'm just doing this to be a PITA' and his ludicrous justification, which is', My own department sneaked this through behind my back and I only found out by reading the paper.'
The values of the Texas DPS include:
Integrity: 'We demonstrate through our actions honesty and respect for others' and...
Accountability: 'We seek and accept responsibility for our conduct.'
Neither of which is he in accordance with, but his aims are incompatible with the strategic goals of the Texas DPS which are to:
Prevent crime and terrorism
Save lives and protect property
Maintain public order
...and to provide effective, efficient and secure licensing services
In any organisation I have ever worked for, the response to a winger like this would have been, 'Not even close, HR offer many courses to help employees with communication difficulties to express themselves,' but from the sound of it, Texas doesn't work like that. The state has become a byword in the UK for general weirdness and creepiness, but I imagine most of its citizens are quite normal folk, who just get along with each other and try to live a quiet life?