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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[–] 190 points 2 years ago (68 children)

"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.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 179 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

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

    Shouldn't this be like, INCREDIBLY illegal?

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  • [–] 78 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 84 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 72 points 2 years ago (53 children)

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

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    What isn’t covered by HIPPA?

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think he should have to show his internet history.

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    [–] 54 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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?

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  • [+] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years 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.

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  • [+] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 45 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    Work towards peace, prepare for the inevitable.

    SocialistRA.org

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    Little shit never leaves his enclave either.

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

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Damn this is scary stuff.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Probably just so he can wank to the pictures.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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