Legal questions surround the Texas Department of Public Safety's new policy to turn away anyone coming in to change the gender marker on their driver's license
Legal questions surround the Texas Department of Public Safety's new policy to turn away anyone coming in to change the gender marker on their driver's license or state ID. Usually, transgender Texans looking to make that change are doing so with a court order , but DPS says starting this week those orders do not matter.
“We saw a similar issue and a similar pathway when there was the directive to DFPS, Department of Family Protective Services to investigate any family getting their” said Pete Makopoulos-Senftleber, an attorney who volunteers at the Trans Legal Aid Clinic Texas, an organization that helps people legally change their names and gender markers.
In a statement, DPS says “Neither DPS nor other government agencies are parties to the proceedings that result in the issuance of these court orders, and the lack of legislative authority and evidentiary standards for the Courts to issue these orders has resulted in the need for a comprehensive legal review by DPS and the OAG.
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