The new policy could have wide-reaching impact and could affect many of the 92,000 trans adults living in Texas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15725184

By Lil Kalish

Emily Bray was supposed to be celebrating on Tuesday morning. After years of trying to change her name and gender marker, the 27-year-old YouTuber received an official court order from a Texas judge that she was at last, in the eyes of the state, the woman she had long known herself to be.

But that elation was short-lived.

An hour later, she logged onto the private Facebook group where she and other trans Texans discussed the bureaucracy of changing one’s name and gender in a state that is becoming increasingly hostile to trans people. One person shared that they had gone into the Department of Public Safety to update their driver’s license that day and learned that the agency had issued a new policy, barring the use of court orders or birth certificates to change one’s listed sex.

“There’s no other way to describe it than a gut punch,” Bray told HuffPost.

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
      112·
      3 months ago

      We don’t. As with many places, we are in gerrymandering hell. We keep inching closer to blue, but it is close to impossible with how much rural space we have.

      • njm1314@lemmy.world
        6·
        3 months ago

        Except Attorney General is a Statewide race. Gerrymandering has nothing to do with it. He won the last election easily.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      102·
      3 months ago

      They believe they’re “freer” this way. An article last year showed that they had the least freedom in the country, but I think Alabama or Mississippi probably challenge them there.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      7·
      3 months ago

      I don’t. But my Trumper neighbors down the street love when people they don’t like get trampled by the State.