Overview
- Internal DPS records obtained by The Texas Newsroom show 110 people attempted to change the gender on their driver’s licenses between August 2024 and August 2025.
- Staff at license offices statewide reported names and license numbers to a dedicated DPS email account set up for these notifications.
- Texas stopped allowing gender-marker changes on licenses in August 2024 except to correct clerical errors, and the state health agency later limited birth-certificate updates.
- DPS has not answered questions about why the data is being collected or whether it has been shared with other agencies or officials.
- The attorney general allowed many related records to be withheld but disclosed four employees with access to the special email, while advocates and lawmakers warn the data collection threatens privacy and could inform future restrictions.