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Stay safe, Texans. They are creating lists of "offenders". Spread the news, this is out of the fascist playbook.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 63 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Gipson then directs employees to scan into the record all “court order sex change documentation that cannot be processed” and email the requesting person’s name and driver’s license or state ID number to “DLCourtorders@dps.texas.gov,” noting on the email subject line “Sex Change Court Order.”

Uh oh, now that the email is public they're gonna have to burn that inbox after the Internet gets done sending all of their "sex change court orders" to it.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I did my part, I sent in a request to change Gregg Abbott's sex

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Ooh nice. I'm going to send one in for Ken Paxton

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Depending on the contents of the documentation, wouldn’t this be sending protected information over an unencrypted medium?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe they have a standard best practice to encrypt all information like that, but I doubt it. Even if they did, I bet the password is something like "IHeArTkEnPaXt0n"

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Come on, give them some credit. They'd pick something clever like Hunter2.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That email address looks like it needs some goatse sent to it at the terabyte scale

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

It would surely be a shame if the inbox got flooded with fictional characters

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, so like a passive-aggresive threat to enact some sort of retribution later? Fuck Texas. I hope the full weight of the courts comes down on any of the fuckers involved in this.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Paxton is super slippery. He avoids consequences for his shitty actions better than anybody I've ever seen.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Paxton is super slippery.

He's not slippery. He's just well defended by phalanxes of the worst Texas conservatives you know.

[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Texas...where pieces of shit live.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There are two types of Texans: pieces of shit and people getting fucked by the pieces of shit.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

America's Colon

[–] AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is true. But, and I'm no mathologist, I'd wager that the chances of a true piece of American shit living in Texas is fairly high.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Next step might be a pink triangle on the DL or records.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazed the state hasn't just started chipping babies by now.

Texas politicians: "We care about babies' genitals"

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -4 points 3 weeks ago

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