#Senate #Committee finds #VanderbiltUniversity ‘#failed’ to protect #transgender #patients’ #privacy.

“While some #hospitals resisted these #overbroad #fishingexpeditions, #VanderbiltUniversityMedicalCenter failed its duty to protect #patients’ #privacy.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #Health #Healthcare #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://wpln.org/post/u-s-senate-committee-finds-vanderbilt-failed-responsibility-to-transgender-patients-privacy/

#Federal #appealscourt #refuses to #halt injunction #blocking #Florida's #drag #show ban while #case moves forward..

In Wednesday's majority opinion, Judges #AdalbertoJordan and #RobinRosenbaum said Presnell #ruled that the #law was likely #overbroad and #unconstitutional under the #FirstAmendment.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Courts #Entertainment #Drag #Representation #Culture https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/federal-appeals-florida-drag-show-ruling/

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/federal-appeals-florida-drag-show-ruling/

#FederalJudge to hold #hearing on #Florida '#drag #show' #legalfight. #HamburgerMarys, which has been holding drag shows for 15-years contends #law violates #FirstAmendment #rights. #Motion claims it inhibits #protectedspeech based on #speaker's #identity, is #vague and #overbroad.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Entertainment #Drag #DragQueens #DragKings #Representation #Culture

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/federal-judge-to-hold-hearing-weigh-in-on-florida-drag-show-legal-fight/3048068/

This report conceded that the intelligence center could not identify any specific threat — a contradiction that experts say speaks to the #overbroad #authority of state intelligence entities and the make-work required by these centers.

“The performance metric is the number of reports you write, rather than the accuracy of them,” Mike German, a retired FBI agent who is now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, said of fusion centers.

“What do you do after you write reports on realistic threats? Pretty soon you have to start writing about imaginary ones. Lots come straight from the fever swamps of social media.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/11/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-movie/