OPINION: As a transgender person, I am afraid that staying in Texas may harm me in the future.
that was specifically about me. I don't think that happens too often to most people, but this is life in Texas now:
If you are a person that has married and changed their last name, you know that sometimes it can take months or years to have the change updated in every single database. When you add in the complexity of changing a first and middle name, plus gender marker, it might never completely happen. While for me it's an annoyance, for others it can create potential for recrimination or violence if someone accesses data that contains information about dead names or gender.
When I read the article and thought about what the implications are of the attorney general of my state trying to obtain a list of people that had changed their gender markers, my first thought was,"Why does he need to know?" Nowhere in the article did I see a statement from the Texas A.G. stating why they needed this data.
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