LGBT

Sometime last year TX rethugs had ordered a retrospective database be compiled, going back several years iirc, getting info not just about drivers licenses, but other registries where gender marker changes had been made. I think those were a long the lines of professional licensure and certification databases. If Texas is like other states, that could include teachers, therapists, social workers, and the like.

It didn't get a lot of press, being submerged in the flood of bureaucratic & legislative transphobia that red states have been pushing.

It's probably no coincidence that this is all happening as the federal requirements for consistent ID draw closer with Real ID deadlines. Denying someone accurate ID will impact travel, benefits access, and of course - in states where they are trying to limit voting by requiring ID - access to the ballot box.

Any trans person in those states who does not own a gun, who wishes to obtain one, should do so before that becomes limited.