According to internal agency documents provided to The Texas Newsroom, employees with the Department of Public Safety recorded each time a driver requested to change the sex listed on their license.

According to internal agency documents provided to The Texas Newsroom, employees with the Department of Public Safety recorded each time a driver requested to change the sex listed on their license.

The Texas DPS rule change surfaced in an internal email that also asks driver license staff to compile the names of people seeking a gender marker change.

Last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sought information on people requesting to change the gender on their state-issued documents, seeking driver's license data on transgender Texans.

Transgender driver flagged. Most of the drivers' names were redacted from the records released to The Texas Newsroom. The aforementioned driver was identified using other information in the documents.