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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 16 in ~society
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 16 in ~society
Bet LinkTennessee: GOP lawmakers want to create a statewide list of trans people based on medical information …Unlike the Texas and Utah laws, however, H.B. 754 also mandates that healthcare providers “report statistics regarding all gender transition procedures” to the Tennessee Department of Health and for that data to be made available in a “comprehensive annual statistical report” on the department’s website.
Gender-affirming care providers would have to report the date on which patients received a “transition procedure,” their age and “biological sex,” their state and county of residence, their doctor’s name and contact information, information on neurological, behavioral, or mental health conditions with which they’ve been diagnosed, and information about the specific prescription or procedure they received.
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services, under HIPAA, “individually identifiable health information” includes a patient’s county of residence and the exact dates they were admitted and discharged. But as Vaca notes, HIPAA also includes exceptions when disclosing protected health information is required by state law.
Under H.B. 754, providers who do not report trans people’s private medical information could have their medical licenses suspended for a minimum of six months, and their employers could be fined up to $150,000.
Vaca warns that bad actors could potentially identify trans people by the information required in the publicly available “comprehensive annual statistical report.”
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The women leaving the new right
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 9 in ~society
Bet LinkI traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing... -
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Bet LinkThursbitch by Alan Garner I’d never heard of this book or this author before randomly stumbling across this description of it. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked.Thursbitch by Alan Garner
He was pointing at the most desolate, remote, hemmed in by packed contours, bleakest farm of all, far from any track. By it was the word, “Thursbitch”. The elements are Old English þyrs and bæch: “demon”; “valley”. “Thursbitch” is first recorded in 1384, a time when names were descriptive only. This was no Romantic conceit. For the people of those hills in the fourteenth century that valley was frequented by a þyrs: a demon.
I’d never heard of this book or this author before randomly stumbling across this description of it. Needless to say, I was immediately hooked.
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