Republican Attorney General Demands Abortion & Trans Medical Records
Tennessee Republican Attorneys General Demands access to out-of-state Abortion and Trans Medical Records. This is FASCISM… in which these Radical Right Wing Republican Christian Nationalist Religious Fanatics want to control every aspect of people’s lives.
Tennessee A.G. uses private medical records in Republican campaign against trans people
Aly Chapman, East Tennessee chair of the Tennessee Equality Project and mother of a transgender child, talks with Rachel Maddow about Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti demanding and obtaining the private medical records of trans people in Tennessee as Republicans look for ways to make the lives of trans people miserable.
Nashville hospital turns over transgender patient records to State Attorney General
A Nashville advocate said that transgender people who received gender-affirming care at VUMC are now worried about how private information may be used.
Tennessee’s War on Trans People: Court OKs Ban on Gender-Affirming Care, AG Demands Medical Records
A federal appeals court has ruled the Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth could go into effect for now, reversing a lower court order. It marks the first time a federal court has allowed such a ban on transition care to fully take hold in the United States, amid a wave of Republican-led attacks on trans rights targeting medical care, education, sports and beyond. “This is going to cause very serious harm to transgender adolescents,” says attorney Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is among the groups suing Tennessee over the law. We also speak with journalist Holly McCall, editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Lookout, which recently revealed how Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office has sought and received patient records and other sensitive information from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center related to its gender-affirming care.
