A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked state Attorney General Ken Paxton from forcing an LGBTQ+ advocacy group to hand over information about transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care.
The ruling came just one day after PFLAG National went to court to try to stop Paxton’s office from getting the information.
Travis County District Court Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel said in an order that providing the information would harm PFLAG and its members in several ways, including violating their rights of free speech, association and protection from unreasonable searches. Additionally, the judge said, it would be a “gross invasion” of privacy.
Republicans are so creepy spying on kids all the time.
Texas very interested in children’s genitals, to the surprise of Noone.
Christians are pathologically obcessed with grooming children
Paxton has been on a shameless, vindictive speed run of vengeful terror since he survived impeachment.
I’m afraid this is but a microcosmic sampling of what’s to come if Trump gets back in the white house.
Wouldn’t it be a HIPAA violation too?
HIPAA doesn’t protect you from the government legally obtaining records. It’s a shield for patients against having their medical data leaked to the public in various ways. This situation is beyond terrifying, but HIPAA doesn’t apply here.
That’s exactly what I came here to ask. It’s got to be at the very least, a HIPAA violation.
States can get their hands on things for criminal investigations. Or they can get that data in the infectious disease database but usually that’s carefully anonymized into general steps of ten… But this… This is some messed up shit
Yeah totally get that for criminals, but these poor children are not breaking the law in any way!
Not yet but they will be if conservatives get their way
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Neither the state of Texas nor PFLAG are “covered entities” under the HIPAA privacy rule. It does not apply to this situation.
Ken Paxton should be in jail.
Hopefully this will stop Paxton’s disgusting lawsuit against Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Fascism!
- Texas, probably
key detail ken paxton was asking for information on people and treatments outside the state of Texas.
Paxton probably knows he can’t get this info due to HIPAA(?) but it’s still a pretty shitty thing, which is on brand for the GOP.
It’s an election year.
If someone decides to contribute to PFLAG or another advocacy group, that’s money that isn’t going to Biden and the Dems.
GOP actively tries to create small, powerless groups like this to sap money from their major threat.
Even better, they can use taxpayer money to drag people into court again and again.
