Overview

• The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has been collecting information on transgender residents who request changes to the sex marker on their driver's licenses since implementing a restrictive policy in August 2024.
• At least 42 cases have been recorded in the past five months, including instances where individuals sought guidance on the process without filing formal requests.
• Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a non-binding opinion on March 14, 2025, stating that transgender Texans cannot change their IDs and that previously updated documents must be reverted.
• The DPS has not disclosed why this data is being collected, how it is being used, or with whom it is being shared, prompting public and activist backlash.
• Initial activist efforts to disrupt the internal email system used for this data collection have subsided, and the system is reportedly being used as intended.