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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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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

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[-] Otakulad@lemmy.world 179 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 134 points 6 months ago
[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 months ago

You can woman fuck them too if you feel up to it.

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago

I think we should all just stop fucking them.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

isn't this like, explicitly anti HIPPA (or HIPAA since apparently medical acronyms suck)?

Shouldn't this be like, INCREDIBLY illegal?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] FilterItOut@thelemmy.club 48 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 months ago

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?

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[-] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 84 points 6 months ago

The singling out of a group and taking away rights seems familiar. Something, Something, Something third Reich.

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[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 72 points 6 months ago

Remember this when someone tries to claim both sides are the same!

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[-] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 55 points 6 months ago

What isn’t covered by HIPPA?

[-] rc_buggy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

Anything these fascists don't like while they're running their theocracy.

Reason I moved my family out of that y'all queda nightmare.

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[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago
[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 55 points 6 months ago

I think he should have to show his internet history.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 54 points 6 months ago

Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.

[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Six months from now: Republican AG subpoenas IKEA for BLÅHAJ purchase records.

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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

100% this guy smokes poles on the DL.

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 months ago
[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

"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.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Candy canes, not poles.

He's a creeper.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

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?

[-] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 45 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

There is no such thing as a good conservative alive today. Conservatives bring only oppression and death. They are the enemy of humanity.

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[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 38 points 6 months ago

Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.

SocialistRA.org

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

Little shit never leaves his enclave either.

He knows what will happen if he ever shows his face in KC or St. Louis.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 34 points 6 months ago

Damn this is scary stuff.

[-] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

What the hell? Seriously, living your life is too much to ask?

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Probably just so he can wank to the pictures.

[-] sturgax@sh.itjust.works 19 points 6 months ago

Me thinks someone has a secret affection for a certain group of people.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 months ago

There's only one party that cares about hypocrisy and it ain't the fucking republicans.

[-] sturgax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago
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