IT IS NONE OF THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS

there's only one reason why fascists ever want this kind of information.

Anyone who treats trans kids.

I have been warning about this for some time.

particularly about the subpoena to CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which is the oldest of its kind in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world - I remember being in there as a young child, decades before they started all the new lo-rise and towers construction ). There are building yet another tower for it (they have a HUGE endowment) -


Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia New Inpatient Tower. Credit: Ballinger / ZGF / AEI via the Civic Design Review

And families.

Trump will sue all the adults involved.
Parents may lose custody of their children etc.
and pay out the nose in lawsuits.
Hospitals will get hit hard too.

It is going to be very ugly.

nor is there any federal law against it. An E.O. isn't "law" and is merely supposed to direct how agencies interpret existing law, but it is being misused as being some kind of "law".

...which will be cut off entirely, at all levels, for every purpose.

This is like in submarine movies, where if you have codebooks, you need to burn them. Parents should be given a copy of their kids' charts and then the databases should be deleted.

Or, you know, fall prey to malware. That could have been what happened, too.

and 45 has lost a bunch regarding cutting off funding and in many cases, 45 finally complied. The "losses" that 45 has racked up are rarely featured in the M$M.

I try to dig daily through dozens of news sites to find the stories of the suits being filed (along with appeals) and the results.

I know some of the people involved - former coworkers, conference friends -- and the thing is, those lawsuits will take a long time. The SC has already shown it is unwilling to prioritize science, or even that convenient-when-they-feel-like-it "parents rights" excuse. Hospitals, with few exceptions, are closing down not only minor care, but in some places, adult trans care too.

Everybody knows where this is going. Hospitals and doctors can't wait out until they win a suit - and then they'll have to get moneys released, usually needing to sue, again.

This is the same tactic that the trumpists use elsewhere: if they can apply quasi-legal power, they do, and if not, they cut off money and drag things out in the courts.

In rare situations, legal victories happen, for instance a case against a medical provider being dismissed because the health care org was a federally qualified health care ctr, so the med pro was a federal employee and thus couldn't be sued by the plaintiff. We'll see what happens next, frankly -- as the organization sees no minors, there might be a grace period, at least until Trump (and the American Principles Project, et al) figure out how to end trans medical care altogether.

DU is an open site, and discussions frequently end up in search results on the big G. If you know of a more secure space, especially where trans & queer health and civil rights efforts are being discussed, I'd be grateful for a DM.

and I know since I have been on DU, there has always been joking about "Agent Mike", although with this administration, we are probably closest to having that become a reality. One can only hope that the SCOTUS still upholds the very first Amendment to the Constitution. But the one thing that is not tolerated (even for the 1st Amendment) is physical "threats" and that is something to avoid.

(and this is a separate issue that has been contested mightily itself), many hospitals nowadays are run by private equities. It's rare to find an "indie" hospital that is not already under a University medical system or is not owned/run by a private equity firm.

So there is a different dynamic. Plus HiPAA hasn't suddenly gone away after almost 30 years of being in existence and the SCOTUS hasn't suddenly discarded it yet (like they have discarded other things).

... this diseased and perverted administration has inflicted on the nation, and, in deed, the entire world, THIS is what you filthy scumbags are focusing your malicious attention on? Terrorizing vulnerable children and those people and institutions that care for them? What utterly despicable monsters you all are! A rabid hyena has more decency and compassion than ALL the Republicans that Satan ever shat out, combined!
And the most disgusting part of all this is that you dare to call yourselves "Christians". You're not. You're the furthest thing from "Christian" it is possible to be without having horns and a tail.
May each and everyone of you suffer a slow, agonizing death, alone and despised by everyone that ever had the misfortune to meet you, as well as those that were spared that trauma.

in the White House and congress... They rape kids, and the DOJ does nothing.

HIPAA, you dumb sons of bitches.

Its the law. Oh, wait.....

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