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Building a registry of trans people is pretty frightening as well
On one hand, very much yes, especially given the details mentioned in the article:
On the other hand, I'm finding it difficult to reconcile the idea of deliberately getting a court order to change your personal information on an official government document and then also wanting the record of that change to be kept secret from the government. It seems to me the problem isn't the government having that information -- which honestly ought to have been trivially available simply as a side effect of properly designing a court records database and not required compiling separately to begin with -- but rather that Texas is failing to remove dangerous abusive bad actors from positions of power.
It's not hiding it from the government, it's about not making a list of trans people for the neo Nazis to target. Emailing all pii to a single email address is is asinine.
It's "security through obscurity." Court records are public: even in the best-case scenario of completely uncooperative bureaucrats, that list would only be a FOIA request and some clerical grunt work away.
Foia request does not get peoples records. This is Republicans trying to build a list of trans people to do harm.
Okay, so maybe I got that detail wrong. But still, the fundamental purpose of officially changing one's name is for other people to recognize the change and start using it. For that to happen, it makes no sense for it to be a secret. Hell, it's often the case that part of the process is a requirement to publish your name change in an ad in the local newspaper!
To reiterate what I already made crystal clear up front: yes, I understand that it's bad for Republicans to be building a list of trans people to do harm! I'm just not sure it's realistic to think they can practically be prevented from it, if they're motivated enough, by any means short of not changing your name to begin with. (Well, that or the actual solution of removing dangerous hateful transphobes from positions of authority, anyway.)
I think the point is that there should be as little remembrance of the change itself. To anyone, even the government, that doesn't need to know it should look like you had that gender all along
I guess I'm just skeptical of the concept of "as little remembrance" in the digital age, as opposed to considering it a binary choice between "completely forgotten" and "easy to look up."