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.
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
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.
Also, it’s bullshit. They want to create a registry so when Trump gets in, they can put them in camps.
Paxton has been on a shameless, vindictive speed run of vengeful terror since he survived impeachment.
I’m afraid this is but a microcosmic sampling of what’s to come if Trump gets back in the white house.
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!
key detail ken paxton was asking for information on people and treatments outside the state of Texas.
Ken Paxton should be in jail.
Ken Paxton should be under the jail.
It’s an election year.
If someone decides to contribute to PFLAG or another advocacy group, that’s money that isn’t going to Biden and the Dems.
GOP actively tries to create small, powerless groups like this to sap money from their major threat.
Even better, they can use taxpayer money to drag people into court again and again.
There’s a major flaw in your logic. Money donated to advocacy groups doesn’t correlate to money that would’ve been donated to Democrats.
The Republicans do this to waste money, yes, but also to waste time and energy fighting battles that don’t need to be fought and arguing against positions that they don’t actually believe in (theoretically), while also giving their constituents targets to get riled up about and unite against in their joint hatred of said minorities.
It’s play #1 in the fascist handbook.