Ken Paxton Can Access Your Prescription Records
Ken Paxton and other Republican officials can access your prescription records without a warrant and use it to target you and your healthcare as he's done with gender affirming care.
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...the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program ("PDMP"). The database enabling this crackdown was never billed as a tool for political persecution. PDMP's were originally established in the 2000s to combat the opioid epidemic and “doctor shopping” for narcotics. Every U.S. state and territory now maintains a PDMP – an electronic registry of controlled substance prescriptions, typically Schedules II through V, that doctors and pharmacies are required to report.
...there is no requirement to obtain a judicial warrant for law enforcement to access the PDMP.
Given how much more prevalent hormone prescriptions are among the cisgender population, any attempt to police and surveil transgender people's prescriptions will inevitably catch orders of magnitude more cis people in the surveillance dragnet. But that's entirely the intention. In this situation, it's become explicitly clear that transgender people are a mere pretext to enable a mass surveillance system to gain control over everyone's bodies and what prescriptions they are able to take. Ken Paxton and his cronies can access your prescription records, even if you don't live in Texas. It's a system so ripe for abuse, that it ultimately must be dismantled.
The classic meme around the torment nexus feels applicable in this situation. They see creating a surveillance state as a positive rather than a negative and don't care about the repercussions because it allows them to gain control over people they see as undesirable. Unfortunately, once you create the torment nexus, it will eventually come for us all.
#TransJustice #Privacy
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