Glossy, color-printed mailers addressed to the children of Texas families began arriving in mailboxes across the state just before early voting opened, each one titled the Texas Trans & LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide. The sender listed on the brochures, a group calling itself the Texas Transgender Student Union, appears to be entirely fabricated, and the return address traces back to a shell company registered in Wyoming rather than anywhere in Texas.
As reported by KXAN Austin, the mailers direct readers to organizations including the Transgender Education Network of Texas, Lambda Legal, Texas Law Help and the ACLU of Texas, and they advise students to seek out a trusted organization rather than pursue medication, a nod to the state law barring hormone treatment for gender dysphoria in minors. The brochures also list upcoming stops on what they describe as TENT's Trans Texas Takeover Tour. TENT has denied creating, authorizing, approving or sending the mailers, telling KXAN that anti-trans extremists want to intimidate trans voters.
The mailers arrived roughly a week after a separate wave of mysterious text messages about a transgender student guide had already sparked angry calls and threats directed at an advocacy group that insisted it never sent those messages either, according to KXAN's reporting. Both the texts and mailers landed just before early voting began in Texas. Conservative social media users and influencers expressed outrage over the mailers; commentator Sara Gonzales called the pamphlet evil, per the outlet.
A Return Address That Doesn't Add Up
The mailer lists a return address of 1611 W. Airport Blvd. #123 in Meadows Place, Texas. But a USPS lookup tool found that address is not valid, and the UPS Store on W. Airport Blvd. actually carries a different street number than the one printed on the mailer. TENT itself uses a different mailbox number at that same UPS Store, and UPS in-store mailboxes are tied to specific street addresses, according to the company's website.
KXAN found no evidence that the Texas Transgender Student Union exists beyond the mailers themselves. The group has no online presence, is not a registered nonprofit, and does not appear in Texas Legislature public comment records on bills affecting transgender students, the outlet reported. Transgender political advocates interviewed by KXAN said they had never heard of the group before the mailers showed up.
The Wyoming Paper Trail
Investigative journalist Steven Monacelli was the first to identify the Wyoming LLC filing behind the mailer, per KXAN. Records show the Texas Transgender Student Union LLC was registered on September 2, with Northwest Registered Agent LLC listed as its registered agent, using a Sheridan, Wyoming address that local reporters have previously linked to scams.
Separately, 30 N. Gould St. in Sheridan is a common address for anonymity-seekers. The street-facing office has served as the registered address for nearly 300,000 LLCs across 26 commercial agents. The building generated more than $21 million in state revenue in just over a year, according to the Sheridan Press, even as it continues to draw local and federal fraud inquiries. A 2025 investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists similarly found that commercial registered-agent storefronts in Sheridan have repeatedly attracted federal law enforcement scrutiny for hosting shell companies tied to financial fraud and sanctions evasion.
Wyoming's corporate law is part of what makes the arrangement possible. The state does not require LLCs to disclose member or manager names on public formation documents or annual reports, leaving only the registered agent's details visible on state registries, according to Alper Law. Northwest Registered Agent LLC, the agent used for the fake Texas group, is the second-largest registered agent company in the country and offers LLC formation for $39, KXAN reported. The same agent was used in September 2024 by Data Factory Austin LLC, a bitcoin mining company, and TENT itself used a similar registered-agent service to form its own LLC in Texas, listing the UPS mailbox address, according to Texas Comptroller records cited by KXAN.
Most transgender nonprofits operate on budgets of $20,000 or less, according to the Global Philanthropy Project, underscoring how disruptive a false campaign-finance entanglement could be for a group like TENT.
In a statement shared on October 17, TENT said the texts and mailers were not authored, authorized, approved or distributed by the organization and are not affiliated with it in any way, adding that the texts do not represent its official position or communications. The group said it plans to monitor the situation and remain committed to supporting trans Texans, their families and loved ones. TENT also converted its website to display only that statement alongside a gif of Mariah Carey asking, “Why are you so obsessed with me?”
The Texas Debate
The mailers land amid debate over LGBTQ+ legislation in Texas.
