Texas doctor charged for leaking health records of transgender kids to far-right extremist

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Texas doctor charged for leaking health records of transgender kids to far-right extremist
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Doctor-patient confidentiality is a serious thing. It doesn't matter what you think, you never leak info about people's medical.

The worst part is that these weren’t even his patients - he just decided to share their private medical records to own the libs

Being trans doesn't make you a "lib"

Um, I never said it did. I said this doctor released the information to “own the libs” because he’s an asshat.

Fascists do not see trans people as human beings. It's not a matter of thinking. They literally view trans kids as subhuman and want to implement a state apparatus to forcefully abuse them with conversion therapy.

How many years of GOP control before they pass an amendment to HIPAA that excludes gender-affirming care from its protection?

Years? It'd be quick when they start their plans to destroy America (project 2025)

Not just that he violated privacy laws and patient confidentiality laws and all that, but the fact that he leaked this information about children to people he knew that was out to hurt those children. That's the part that gets me he didn't knowing it would get children hurt. His goal was to cause pain and suffering to patience. This guy's not a doctor he's not a physician. He should lose is medical license. This is a violation of everything being a medical physician should mean. It's the exact opposite of hypocratic oath. Which is the only oath that should matter to these people.

I don't think many nonviolent offences should result in life imprisonment, but this should be one of them.

Fuck this guy.

This wasn't non violent, it was stochastic violence. He chose to leak to who he leaked it to specifically because of the chance one of them acts on it.

Extremists: Nothing is more important than their hate. Not their family, not their job, not the law, not society... We have to fight them, always.

Soon-to-be former doctor.

But I doubt that will make him regret what he did. He'll probably blame the "woke leftists" for "silencing him".

I can't imagine going into that much debt, and spending that much of your life, just to throw it all away and be a piece of shit like this on a scale that makes national/international news.

Life in prison.

I mean, maybe. But at least pull his license.

10 years is fully possible.

He will likely lose his medical license whether hes convicted of a crime or not. This is a very cut and dry HIPAA violation, in several ways. No way that flies with the AMA.

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Ahhh yes, the Party of Freedoms and all they want to do is take them away.

Why is it so hard to just not be a dick?

Because then they'd have to admit that other ways of living are valid, and you can be a good person without believing exactly what they believe.

Conservatives are all such trash. The party of personal freedom sure is awfully interesting in pestering trans people to death.

Lets hope they put him behind bars for child endangerment in lots of cases, and shred his GP licence as a bonus.