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 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 on gender-affirming care for people of all ages, was quick to celebrate the decision, calling it a “big day” for the state.
We don’t know what that number is as the studies have methodological issues. As I already stated.
But say it’s 10% and the suicide rate for youth with gender dyphoria is 20%. If you have 100 patients with gender dysphoria and you treat no one, 20 kids die. If you treat everyone all 100 kids live and 10 regret being put on hormones.
In this case doing nothing causes the most harm. Do no harm includes harm reduction and harms caused by not acting.
The Dr in this situation has an ethical duty to treat all of the patients. Even if desistance is a risk for some. Because death is the risk of doing nothing.