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.
So… my first question was: Why’d they even want the information? It’s answered in the article:
In a statement Thursday, Paxton’s office said the information is highly relevant to investigations into whether medical providers are committing insurance fraud to circumvent the ban.
Ok… so they know something about the possibilities of insurance scams. I wonder how they know about the methods of insurance scams? Perhaps now would be a good time to investigate how Paxton knows so much about insurance scams.
Every accusation is a confession.
Wait… So if I accuse Donald Trump of sexual harassment for “grabbing them by the pussy”… I become a sex offender? Goodness me, I didn’t even know I did such a thing!
If you are a GOP ghoul, then yes, projection is a strong possibility.
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
Wouldn’t it be a HIPAA violation too?
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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