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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.

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[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 190 points 7 months ago

"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.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 7 months ago

But if they're forced to abide by logic and reasoning how are they supposed to oppress women and minorities?

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Also like I dunno about all trans people everywhere but for myself and all the trans folk I know being trans when I was a kid really wasn't focused on my body. Like all it takes to pass pre-puberty is a haircut and clothes and you're perfectly happy. There's just not a lot of physical differences between the sexes up to a point. It's not until you start developing secondary sex characteristics that you care much about your body at all... Puberty though... It's like a body horror. Once you go from effortlessly passing to having to work at it it's like actually losing something you didn't realize you valued so much knowing you will never experience it again.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

people legit believe 5 year olds are receiving puberty blockers.

The funniest part is, that's exactly who puberty blockers were initially intended for. Like the whole original point of puberty blockers is to block puberty in young children who are prematurely entering puberty. They've been in use for decades too, but no one complained until they started to be used in gender affirming care 🙄

[-] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Which was pretty much from the beginning too.

The sad thing is that puberty blockers are a discussion worth having. They aren't perfect. It's tech absolutely worth refining for trans usage to combat it's drawbacks but we can't talk about having awesome perfect trans care with amazing outcomes when the conversation we're having is whether we're allowed to have any trans care at all.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

It must be a new strain of that chemical they put in the water that turns the friggin frogs gay

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

IT'S NOT. HUMAN. INTELLIGENCE!!!

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry I thought we were doing Alex Jones impressions.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

When people were arguing for this ban in Indiana, people were saying the same stupid shit.

And it turned out that there was no hospital or clinic that performed such surgery on minors in the first place.

They didn't care, they just kept saying it.

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