Last week, Odessa’s city council passed an ordinance barring trans people from the correct bathrooms and allowing anybody to sue suspected violators of this ban. This is, shockingly, a really terrible idea!

A memo distributed internally at the Texas Department of Public safety now disallows Texans from using court orders or amended birth certificates to have the gender marker on their license changed. The DPS says the Attorney General’s office is to blame, and what’s more, Attorney General Ken Paxton seems dead set on creating a list of trans Texans again… again. Again.