MicroWaveApr 14, 2024

Anti-Trans Missouri A.G. Can Now Access Trans People’s Medical Records

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Anti-Trans Missouri A.G. Can Now Access Trans People’s Medical Records - Lemmy.World

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 [https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/court-rules-missouri-ag-entitled-to-certain-planned-parenthood-transgender-care-records/article_d65b6842-f8d0-11ee-9814-e7625b653629.html] 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 [https://newrepublic.com/post/172330/missouri-anti-trans-health-care-ban] on gender-affirming care for people of all ages, was quick to celebrate the decision, calling it a “big day” for the state.

Show threadbeaxinguApr 14, 2024
WTF is transgender care what is the difference with just old care everybody else gets nobody seems to talk about that. what exactly is meant wit transgender care, is there like gay care lesbian care bi care and what would that even be
Show threadXhieronApr 14, 2024

There absolutely is. Trans care is whatever care Trans people get. Just like women’s care is the care women get, children’s care is the care children get, along with elder care and care for the disabled. Unqualified “care” is the province only of white, gender conforming, AMAB men, preferably WASPs. You don’t hear as much about it now, but “black healthcare” is what gave us the Tuskegee syphilis human experiment.

Anything these bigots and fascists can use to distinguish the kind of care the “other” receives from normal care is a way to demonize the other and justify making their costs higher and their services worse and less.

Show threadbeaxinguApr 14, 2024
women an children or elder care is only differentiated because different biological things happen. the same with female or male biology that's why you would focuses on that. trans is only a very small subset of that. you only say transgender care because you don't want to directly say what it actually is you are actually asking for. transgender care is used because it sounds better then asking for hormones and puberty blockers and after that surgery's. its to marked something with a more familiar term to make it more acceptable. some people want hormones and puberty blockers to be the only way in reducing dysphoria and a big part of that wants surgery to be the only way. calling everybody bigots and fascists because you disagree with someone only shows how weak your arguments are. it does not help your credibility and it only helps to reduce the impact and meaning of the words.
Show threadXhieron

Do people think women’s care only means hysterectomy and radical mastectomy? Does elder care only mean euthanasia? The problem isn’t that the term obfuscates particular procedures, because the particular procedures any patient receives are none of your fucking business. It’s that it’s used to hide assumptions that support demonizing the target group.

There are absolutely biological differences that influence what the standard of care ought to be, but that distinction only matters in policy because bigots and fascists need lines of division so they can restrict target classes from accessing healthcare.

If you want to have a conversation about puberty blockers, you can have that conversation. I think it’s a complicated subject. This issue is a problem because you want “trans care” to mean the least credible, most socially objectionable course of treatment for a target class of “less than” citizens you can imagine, whereas others just want healthcare. And whatever care that is is up to the patient and their doctor.

Apr 14, 2024 at 5:32pmWeb
Show threadbeaxinguApr 14, 2024
because women's care and elder care don't only mean hysterectomy and radical mastectomy and euthanasia that's the whole point of doing it in that way because you cant really know what is really meant because it involves a lot more. its just more common in does groups of care. trans care means exactly what i said it means and its used to make it sound better you can only dream of wanting to use it in any other way like women's care and elder care.