Last summer, when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton prompted the Texas Department of Safety to stop honoring court orders as bases to change the sex on a person’s driver’s license, a Houston man found himself in a legal conundrum. Paxton intended to make it impossible for trans Texans to have their preferred genders legally recognized by the state. And indeed, many found themselves in limbo, unable to receive state IDs reflecting their gender identities. But the attorney general’s efforts had fringe bureaucratic consequences, too. Razavi, a man who asked to be identified by his last name only, was in the process of legally detransitioning. He had lived as female for a few years but decided he wanted to once again identify as male, his sex assigned…
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