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"My team will get to the bottom of how this clandestine network of clinics has subjected children to puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, often without parental consent,” he wrote in a statement.
Ffs, he makes it sound like toddlers are getting snatched off the streets to get "trans'ed".
Give me one fucking case anywhere in this state where a minor was given surgery without parental consent. Go ahead, I'll wait.
But if they're forced to abide by logic and reasoning how are they supposed to oppress women and minorities?
Honestly they have sown the myths of trans healthcare so hard that people legit believe 5 year olds are receiving puberty blockers. The barest of sense is easier to hijack than people can believe. It's why we can't depend on a majority vote for stuff like this. The airbrains are being given butterflies to chase and then telling us we're crazy. They probably have some fictional bogeyman-esque case someone wrote an article about or a interviewee they managed to play out of context nonsense from to cite you.
They've managed to convince people that 5 year olds are out here getting gender reassignment surgery, like it's not already incredibly hard for willing adults to get it
Conservatives : Show me your personal medical records. I need to know if you are commiting crimes.
Also conservatives: No you can't see my tax returns. That's personal.
Even better - Conservatives: show me your personal medical records, I need to know if you are doing something I want to be illegal.
Also conservatives: what do you mean you want to check my mental health background before I can purchase a gun? Outrageous.
The whole LGBT stuff is such bullshit since it should 100% easily fall under first amendment expression it is retarded that they have not been trounced are every turn.
Man fuck Republicans
You can woman fuck them too if you feel up to it.
isn't this like, explicitly anti HIPPA (or HIPAA since apparently medical acronyms suck)?
Shouldn't this be like, INCREDIBLY illegal?
Not like the Christians care but it also violates the fourth
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
ah yes, a classic, the fourth, i mean the forced amendment.
The ruling specifically said items that aren't protected under federal mandate. When I deal with HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) information, just about everything you can imagine in the record is protected if it can be paired with another piece of info and narrow down a person's identity. Scroll down to the 'Protected Health Information'
Hopefully that means they can deny just about every document... but I have no hope when it comes to courts and prosecutors in the states.
yeah no this definitely seems illegal then. There's no way asking for medical documents of trans people isn't going to reveal personal information about them, unless you're looking for fucking statistics?
The singling out of a group and taking away rights seems familiar. Something, Something, Something third Reich.
What isn’t covered by HIPPA?
I think that they are trying to use "Medicaid fraud" as a backdoor to access medical records. I mean, the AG is specifically saying otherwise but that's the loophole they will use to get these records.
Anything these fascists don't like while they're running their theocracy.
Reason I moved my family out of that y'all queda nightmare.
*HIPAA
Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.
Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.
100% this guy smokes poles on the DL.
It's almost perfect
This is why they insist that being gay is a choice. They themselves are gay and they have chosen to just live in the closet. Now that it's so much more accepted, they're spitefully trying to force others to endure the hardship they live every day. Their misery is lonely.
Candy canes, not poles.
He's a creeper.
But it’s not exactly clear yet which documents Bailey will be able to access or that sensitive medical records are completely off the table, as legal experts warn that HIPAA operates with a fairly narrow scope.
Does anyone here with any experience in this field know what sort of information he could access that would be damaging to patients?
Technically this is a grey area and they are blatantly misusing the exception for court order/warrant rule. HIPAA just states that records must be turned over but doesn't get into details concerning how much or how little should be provided. I really can't believe the judge allowed this but I suspect (hopeful anyway)that this will get kicked up to a federal court since federal law supercedes state laws.
There needs to be a stay of enforcement if it's going to be appealed.
Though I fully suspect that if it gets to SCOTUS, there isn't going to be much hope.
It mostly depends on what he does with the information. Any personally identifiable information that becomes public puts someone at serious risk of being persecuted or physically threatened.
The statement from Planned Parenthood includes:
Despite the Attorney General’s demand that PPSLR turn over all patient medical records related to gender-affirming care, the court ruled that individual patient records remain protected — a major victory for patients' privacy rights.
I suspect this means the AG may receive de-identified records including procedure or diagnosis information, but not including any patient identifying information such as patient or billing account, name, address, social, date of birth, date of service, etc.
It could also include aggregate information about providers and facilities, especially if records are obtained under the guise of a fraud investigation, allowing the AG to target locations and providers where patients frequently obtain specific services. That route might be the most harmful to patients, for ex. if they're unable to continue receiving care because of harassment of the providers.
There is no such thing as a good conservative alive today. Conservatives bring only oppression and death. They are the enemy of humanity.
Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.
SocialistRA.org
Little shit never leaves his enclave either.
He knows what will happen if he ever shows his face in KC or St. Louis.
Damn this is scary stuff.
What the hell? Seriously, living your life is too much to ask?
Probably just so he can wank to the pictures.
Me thinks someone has a secret affection for a certain group of people.
Yeah, I stopped with that line of thought ages ago. Regardless of whether it's true for any percentage of cases, they're still monsters causing massive amounts of damage and trauma to people just trying to exist. They've also shown us time and time again that hypocrisy is no barrier for them.
There's only one party that cares about hypocrisy and it ain't the fucking republicans.
Agreed.