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Do you guys remember when they wouldn't track COVID infections early on to warn people of possible exposure because of privacy rights? Yeah, apparently those privacy rights vanish when it comes to transgender people.
The staggering hypocrisy of the lawmakers that claim the data is going to be anonymized is shocking. If you want your data anonymized, why would you track location and provider? It's like pointing a finger straight at the people that use that care.
This looks like an attempt to kill transgender care by making it impossible to get any, or too dangerous. All because some people have been brainwashed into recognizing another non-existent enemy. All transgender people want is the right to exist in peace, and the "party of personal responsibility" should really be able to respect that.
Minimally.
One does not need to be exceptionally imaginative to think about what things could be done by a christofascist government with the vaguest cover of law. They’ve already tried to float taking guns from all transgender people due to a single shooting. We know that simply by being known to law enforcement that they will target you for harassment and create charges or “confidential criminal informant” testimony to justify destroying your property (see AfroMan) without any means for you to seek compensation or breaking into your home in the middle of the night and murdering you.