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A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won't say what they're using the list for.

A year after the state blocked transgender Texans from updating their state IDs, it has collected information on more than 100 people who have tried. Officials won’t say what they’re using the list for.

The state of Texas has continued collecting information on transgender drivers seeking to change the sex listed on their licenses, creating a list of more than 100 people in one year.

According to internal documents The Texas Newsroom obtained through records requests, the Texas Department of Public Safety has amassed a list of 110 people who tried to update their gender between August 2024 and August 2025. Employees with driver’s license offices across the state, from El Paso to Paris to Plano, reported the names and license numbers of these people to a special agency email account. Identifying information was redacted from the records released to The Texas Newsroom.

The data was collected after Texas stopped allowing drivers to update the gender on their licenses unless it was to fix a clerical error. It is unclear what the state is doing with this information.

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      I’m Native American, and my tribe’s word for “white person” is translated literally as “lister”. Because that’s what the white people did when they encountered the tribe. They listed everything. They made lists of the tribe’s people, their possessions, how everyone was related, where everything was, what religion everyone was, etc… Wanted to trade? They’d make a list of what was traded. They wanted to build a house? They started with a list of everything they’d need. They showed up in a covered wagon? They’d have a list of everything on the wagon. Everything got written down on a list somewhere. So the tribe called them listers.

      Funnily enough, the word for “black person” is “black lister”, because the slaves were only ever around when the listers were. As far as my ancestors were concerned, they were just black listers.