Texas attorney general sought data on gender changes to state IDs

Ken Paxton requested the public safety department for the numbers, but it was never given due to accuracy problems

The office of Republican Texas attorney general Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver's licenses, according to a newspaper report published on Wednesday that civil rights attorneys described as worrying.

The Washington Post reported that public records obtained by the newspaper do not indicate why Paxton's office made the request to the Texas department of public safety (DPS). The head of the driver's license division told colleagues in June to compile the total number of changes from male to female and female to male for the last 24 months".