A judge ordered Planned Parenthood to hand records of transgender care over to Andrew Bailey.
A St. Louis judge has ruled that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is entitled to Planned Parenthood’s transgender care records, ordering the nonprofit to turn over some of its most sensitive files to the man who has built his unelected political career on restricting health care access for trans people.
In his Thursday decision, Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer wrote that Bailey can collect documents under Missouri’s consumer protection statute that aren’t protected under federal mandate, namely the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, better known as HIPAA.
“It is clear from the statute that the Defendant has the broad investigative powers when the consumer is in possible need of protection and there is no dispute in this matter,” wrote Stelzer. “Therefore, the Defendant is entitled to some of the requested documents within his [Civil Investigative Demand].”
Bailey, who last year attempted to implement a ban on gender-affirming care for people of all ages, was quick to celebrate the decision, calling it a “big day” for the state.
100% this guy smokes poles on the DL.
I HAVE A WIDE STANCE
Candy canes, not poles.
He’s a creeper.
Another Grindr profile with no picture, and probably just “HMU” in the text portion.
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It’s almost perfectThis 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.
“Being gay is a choice” is something I had impressed on me by my mother. In a way she was right. For some of us, it’s a choice between life and death.
I think it’s only for minors, which is even weirder.
Conservatives love kids genitals these days
I’m from St. Louis so I keep up with local politics and shit. While you might find I disagree with most people on a lot of things, especially in the trans area of discussion, at no point do I think it’s a good idea to put a politician in the same room as a doctor and a patient. That is all I am willing to say about that.
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I think he should have to show his internet history.
At this point, I think that should be a requirement of every candidate during an election, except they’d all ‘accidentally’ clear it.
The singling out of a group and taking away rights seems familiar. Something, Something, Something third Reich.
More familiar than you think.
https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/6-may-1933-looting-of-the-institute-of-sexology/
You’re just saying that because a certain government in Germany forcefully obtained a list of people who’d received gender affirming care. I wonder why the names on that list seem to not have been around in the 1950s
The names may have changed but boy does the current situation in the USA catch the spirit of it. Scapegoat one particular class and villainize them.
Well what I was trying to say is that those patients did not survive the Nazi regime. The famous photo of a Nazi book burning was an act of transphobia and homophobia.
Ah, miscommunication in that case.
What the hell? Seriously, living your life is too much to ask?
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.
Doesn’t that precedent make it possible for medical records covering abortions to be used in the same way? Repubs would never allow that, they have too much to lose by having people find out what they’ve done.
Republicans would absolutely allow that. They are willing to bite their own noses off just to spit in their enemies faces.
How it would play out is selective prosecution where only
democratspoor people or non-whites get charged.White Christians would get a pass at best. Or blackmailed at worst.
Yeah, true. Their voters have zero integrity or consistency. And their propaganda networks will be pretending that voter fraud is happening as a cover so they’ll never know in the first place.
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.
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.
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Republicans have recently been trying to push for the following two policies:
- Making sex offenses punishable by death
- Marking trans people as sex offenders
It’s easy to see where this is going. This is one of MANY reasons the country won’t survive another 4 years of Trump.
Damn this is scary stuff.
Bailey, who last year attempted to implement a ban on gender-affirming care for people of all ages
I’m not a fan of giving it to children, but adults should be able to do what they want with their bodies as long as they are not hurting anyone else.
Why not?
Children are too easily manipulated, and I don’t trust people to avoid coercing children that it’s better to be trans.
Do you think children are more susceptible than adults? At what age are they less?
Do you think children are more susceptible than adults?
Absolutely.
At what age are they less?
It depends on the individual, but the general trend is that people become less susceptible to coercion as they become older and gain more life experience.
By that logic, are there any other things you’d be against allowing children to do or experience?
Yes.
Could you give a couple of examples?
This is such a stupid line of thinking. Trans people aren’t Nazi’s, they don’t indoctrinate the youth.
they don’t indoctrinate the youth.
Sorry, I’ve seen too much evidence to the contrary.
There are scumbags across all walks off life, and you’ll start to realize this as you get older.
Hi, you can believe what you want to believe, but I wish I pursued care when I was younger (began questioning at the onset of puberty) rather than transitioning at 25.
The most commonly used model is puberty blockers with parental consent up until 16 and then HRT only with parental consent at 16.
Forcing a child to undergo a puberty that they do not want, is cruel!
Children do not choose to transition because they think it’s cool to do so. They still get bullied for it. At least set them up to have a more stable adulthood.
Rural Missouri holding the cities captive.
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.
Silly commie. The 4th amendment is like the 3rd, 7th, and 8th. They’re all outdated silly things that are completely irrelevant to our modern world unlike the 2nd and certain interpretations of the 1st
ah yes, a classic, the fourth, i mean the forced amendment.
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No, they’re referring to the Health Insurance Portability and Paccountability Act.
I thought they were talking about that hungra, hungra animal from Africa.
the p in hippa stands for accountability
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?
Given those are the only documents this ruling entitles the AG to, it sounds like statistics are all he’s gonna get.
what a funny time to live in huh
Go sit in in a personal injury trial and see how worthless HIPPA actually is.
hipaa is one of the things of all time, that’s definitely for sure.
But there are also things it’s supposed to be doing, so.
Little shit never leaves his enclave either.
He knows what will happen if he ever shows his face in KC or St. Louis.
Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.
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Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.
It’s disrespectful to alter someone’s quote while providing no commentary outside of the quote. IMO.
It’s disrespectful to alter someone’s quote while providing no commentary outside of the quote. IMO.
The link added to the comment is my comment. Don’t overthink it.
Appreciate the context
Remember this when someone tries to claim both sides are the same!
you should already know there are no more sides.
Fuck off with that nonsense. If you can’t see the difference between an actual theocratic fascist party (who makes no attempt to pretend otherwise) and a milquetoast neoliberal party, you’re either wilfully ignorant, misinformed, or here to spread disinformation.
It’s the ruling class and their useful idiots vs. everyone else.
Guess who’s winning…
everybody is a bigot and a fascists now you just need to disagree with what they say. its only ignorant, misinformed and disinformation when it does not align with your specific politics. that’s why you need to be careful with saying shit like that it deludes the meaning of ignorant, misinformed ignorant and disinformation fascist and bigot too because nobody will take it seriously anymore and i just don’t like the misusage of terms for your own political benefit. you delude the meanings of does words to your detriment.
You are misinformed.
best reply ever. im guessing this is how you mostly reply.
No one has ever seriously called me a bigot. It sounds like they have called you one. I wonder why that could be?
that just shows you have not used the internet very well and that your being disingenuous because people can say what ever fuck they want as you are showing right now. if you want to take everything seriously people call you that’s your problem not mine.
I’ve been using the internet since 1989. How about you?
this only makes it worse. do you think just because you know the internet existed sins 1989 that it can not be that you have been doing it wrong. this is not an argument in your favor. your previous disingenuous reply was very funny i never take tactics like that very seriously.
Sounds like exactly what a fascist would say. It’s a lie that only benefits fascists, after all.
yes everything you don’t like is fascists because you say so.
Not everyone I don’t like. Everyone who says childish bullshit like “everyThING YoU dONn’T LiKE iS A faSCISt”. Grow the fuck up you intellectual toddler.
dude that means the exact same shit confirming my reply. calling people names very classy this must mean you are winning and adult.
oh you enlightened centrist, where’d you get so smart?
hey at least im not known for purging people for there political beliefs. also no need for calling people the worst thing they can be for political wins. and i can just have more fun. no need to sniff my own farts.
i’s just pokin a lil fun, mind
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it’s a blue conservative like you
what the hell? where are you getting this
TIL I’m a blue conservative 😂😭💀
Ya know, this is the second time in two days I’ve seen your username posting stuff like this. I’m not even from the US but can tell you’re just trying to stir the pot. Glad my client shows that your account is only 18days old.
then why would you reply doing exactly what he wants.its just funny.
You should do something more productive with your Adderall
