This is a HIPAA violation for which he should have gotten into trouble and I don’t wish bad karma on anyone so I will go look at kittens and puppies and try to send good karma thoughts to our trans brothers and sisters…
Ta, Crip Dyke. As I say so often, trans rights are human rights. Nothing less will do. Ever. If *I* as a lowly Care Coordinator for HIV positive people violated HIPAA I'd be fined, prosecuted, and fired. I don't believe in the death penalty as a deterrent, but if I were to make an exception, Dr. Haim would be on his way to the guillotine.
Reading the comment section under one of the videos that Eithan gets interviewed in is...I'm not sure what to call it, certainly not enlightening. Basically a hodgepodge of misplaced fear, rage, god's gonna get you sinner, and "protect the chirrens!" ignorance.
The echo chamber of stochastic terrorism they enable is frightening. The weird societal shame the parents feel pressured by from their fellow travelers emerges as bad behaviors they justify all the way from "privacy violations are good and necessary," to shunning, up to preferring the actual extermination of what they won't/don't understand.
The saddest people are the ones with trans kids/adults who've mysteriously cut off contact with them. They are sure that it has nothing to do with them, and blame anything and everyone but themselves. When the delusion becomes reality there is little to be done.
Once The Hate Cult has perfected its othering, outlawing and disappearing techniques with our trans family they will move on to try and destroy their next vulnerable targets. We must not let them. In the name of all that is decent they must be stopped. So say we all.
I can't help feeling like Harper Steele faces a double whammy: this country's power structure hates trans people, but it becomes more and more clear that it hates women, too. How terrifying to be both.
Exposing confidential medical information is a bridge too far and should not be tolerated. If right-wing supporters cannot be expected to hold this line, what other boundaries are also at risk? Reporting of prior conditions to prospective insurers and employers? Prosecuting for travel to access reproductive care? Treatment of non-trans people with prescribed estrogen or testosterone? Could that be labelled gender-affirming medical care and be caught up in a dragnet of transphobic persecution?
I don’t mean to change the focus. It should remain on compassionate care for trans people just because. My intent is to show the potential corruption when leaders justify mistreatment of one kind of human being that they don’t understand or identify with.
Long ago when I worked for a doctor, I was told saying a word about confidential medical records would get me fired. This doctor walks? Trump is making me sicker and sicker.
The word "decency" was used several times in Crip's article, including the famous question of Joseph Welch to Joseph McCarthy. There is no decency, not one scrap of decency, in this maladministration that the narcissistic SOB leader is inflicting on this nation. The light of decency has gone out, and with it the lights of caring, equal justice, and human dignity, among others.
"Honour, Justice, and Humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that Freedom which we received from our gallant Ancestors, and which our innocent Posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding Generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them...."
Jefferson wrote those words with reference to what he called the involuntary slavery of the colonists by the British monarchy. We can later debate the irony and hypocrisy in those words with regard to the chattel slavery which would still exist for nearly 100 years, but the words are seen today by me as a call to arms, that we do not surrender our nation's goals of honor, justice, and humanity to the likes of the trumpean onslaught of hatred and vindictiveness.
As I have said before, I have a trans granddaughter whom I love. For her, but also for all like her who are cut loose and trampled upon by this evil creature now in the White House, we must see that this does not continue beyond the elections of 2026. Our "innocent posterity: require that from us.
I have no proof of this, but I feel like the same people who are appalled by the existence of trans people publicly are also massive consumers of non-heterosexual porn privately.
They are not. While I disagree with much that the Democratic Party has/has not done, they are still much more the party of decency and humane government than is this collection of thieves and selfish people who are now in the White House. An understanding of the Constitution completely escapes the trumpists; their leader sees his role is that of a CEO robber baron of the late 19th century, running his company as he alone sees fit and destroying anyone who would offer alternatives. Find me a president beginning with FDR from the Democratic side of the aisle who has behaved like that.
This is the power of the unreconstructed writ large. These are the kinds of things that are part and parcel of their ability to torment vulnerable minorities—the same ones their numerous supporters hate.
It takes years for us to claw back power, but we have to do it...for them. Look at what these people do in the majority, and look at the media structures that cover for them...the greatest of which comprise the right wing media human centipede.
I first thought this might be like Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin . . . uh, make that Lt. Col. Terrence Dumbfuck . . . the U.S. Army doc who disobeyed deployment orders, getting himself imprisoned abd booted out of Army, because the C-in-C was a natural-born citizen of Kenya (or Indonesia or wtf ever) and thus had no authority to send U.S. military personnel anywhere.
This, of course, it multiple orders of magnitude worse. At least Dr. Dumbfuck didn't steal patient records and give them to wingnut celebrities.
Remove all the trans context, leave this case as simply a HIPAA violation--a massive one--and this is a rather clear-cut case. "Mr Haim, did you access the medical records of X, Y, and Z?" "Yes." "Did you have any legitimate reason to access those records?" "No." "Did you then give those private, protected, medical records to Mr Rufo?" "Yes." Jury: "Guilty."
How many more months (weeks?) do people like me have left to be ourselves? I have zero interest in hiding myself again in men's clothes that make me physically ill. I will not go back.
Technically it sure as hell seems he also broke federal law about unauthorized data access (a law which is not limited to medical data, just a general "anti-hacking" statute). I think that the criminal HIPAA provision was the right charge, obviously, but if the DoJ had wanted to make an example of him, they could have brought more serious charges that are even easier to prove, with -- and I may be wrong on this b/c it's been a while since I looked at the subsection in question, but I think this is true -- double the potential prison time (20 years instead of 10). And even if I'm misremembering the maximum penalty, the hacking laws are frequently used and judges are used to sentencing people to actual prison for that. The HIPAA provisions not so much. I think the general bias in favour of white collar criminals would likely have resulted in 0 jail time even if Haim was convicted.
Personally I would have thrown the book at him, but as it happens I'm also not very electable.
In the benevolent despotism which has lived rent-free and toothless in my mind for nearly eight years, since the 45th president was oublietted and has had no contact or communication with humanity whatsoever, you and Chris Geidner and Erin Reed have been APPOINTED to the Eternal Civil Rights Commission.
It absolutely is, and potentially theft since the doc took records of patients he did not care for and gave those records to a random right wing asshole.
Unfortunately, laws are now only enforced when the christofascist regime chooses.
This is a HIPAA violation for which he should have gotten into trouble and I don’t wish bad karma on anyone so I will go look at kittens and puppies and try to send good karma thoughts to our trans brothers and sisters…
Ta, Crip Dyke. As I say so often, trans rights are human rights. Nothing less will do. Ever. If *I* as a lowly Care Coordinator for HIV positive people violated HIPAA I'd be fined, prosecuted, and fired. I don't believe in the death penalty as a deterrent, but if I were to make an exception, Dr. Haim would be on his way to the guillotine.
Reading the comment section under one of the videos that Eithan gets interviewed in is...I'm not sure what to call it, certainly not enlightening. Basically a hodgepodge of misplaced fear, rage, god's gonna get you sinner, and "protect the chirrens!" ignorance.
The echo chamber of stochastic terrorism they enable is frightening. The weird societal shame the parents feel pressured by from their fellow travelers emerges as bad behaviors they justify all the way from "privacy violations are good and necessary," to shunning, up to preferring the actual extermination of what they won't/don't understand.
The saddest people are the ones with trans kids/adults who've mysteriously cut off contact with them. They are sure that it has nothing to do with them, and blame anything and everyone but themselves. When the delusion becomes reality there is little to be done.
Once The Hate Cult has perfected its othering, outlawing and disappearing techniques with our trans family they will move on to try and destroy their next vulnerable targets. We must not let them. In the name of all that is decent they must be stopped. So say we all.
Please stay safe Crip Dyke!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdOtjP66KM
I can't help feeling like Harper Steele faces a double whammy: this country's power structure hates trans people, but it becomes more and more clear that it hates women, too. How terrifying to be both.
Can there not be a civil suit? Seems like it would be pretty straight-forward, no DOJ needed.
Exposing confidential medical information is a bridge too far and should not be tolerated. If right-wing supporters cannot be expected to hold this line, what other boundaries are also at risk? Reporting of prior conditions to prospective insurers and employers? Prosecuting for travel to access reproductive care? Treatment of non-trans people with prescribed estrogen or testosterone? Could that be labelled gender-affirming medical care and be caught up in a dragnet of transphobic persecution?
I don’t mean to change the focus. It should remain on compassionate care for trans people just because. My intent is to show the potential corruption when leaders justify mistreatment of one kind of human being that they don’t understand or identify with.
I'm unclear about the medical aspects of all this but isn't Sir looking for a penis donor?
The shiny new idea seems to be that no matter what you do, it's fine so long as it sorts well with Trump's brainless and cruel ideology.
Long ago when I worked for a doctor, I was told saying a word about confidential medical records would get me fired. This doctor walks? Trump is making me sicker and sicker.
The word "decency" was used several times in Crip's article, including the famous question of Joseph Welch to Joseph McCarthy. There is no decency, not one scrap of decency, in this maladministration that the narcissistic SOB leader is inflicting on this nation. The light of decency has gone out, and with it the lights of caring, equal justice, and human dignity, among others.
"Honour, Justice, and Humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that Freedom which we received from our gallant Ancestors, and which our innocent Posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding Generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them...."
Jefferson wrote those words with reference to what he called the involuntary slavery of the colonists by the British monarchy. We can later debate the irony and hypocrisy in those words with regard to the chattel slavery which would still exist for nearly 100 years, but the words are seen today by me as a call to arms, that we do not surrender our nation's goals of honor, justice, and humanity to the likes of the trumpean onslaught of hatred and vindictiveness.
As I have said before, I have a trans granddaughter whom I love. For her, but also for all like her who are cut loose and trampled upon by this evil creature now in the White House, we must see that this does not continue beyond the elections of 2026. Our "innocent posterity: require that from us.
I have no proof of this, but I feel like the same people who are appalled by the existence of trans people publicly are also massive consumers of non-heterosexual porn privately.
Well, you've got Mark Robinson:
https://www.wonkette.com/p/good-god-cnn-watching-trans-porn
Both parties are the same.
They are not. While I disagree with much that the Democratic Party has/has not done, they are still much more the party of decency and humane government than is this collection of thieves and selfish people who are now in the White House. An understanding of the Constitution completely escapes the trumpists; their leader sees his role is that of a CEO robber baron of the late 19th century, running his company as he alone sees fit and destroying anyone who would offer alternatives. Find me a president beginning with FDR from the Democratic side of the aisle who has behaved like that.
I suspect Napoleon was being ironic-- condemning both-sides-ism by echoing the cheap rationalization of the disengaged nonvoter
This is the power of the unreconstructed writ large. These are the kinds of things that are part and parcel of their ability to torment vulnerable minorities—the same ones their numerous supporters hate.
It takes years for us to claw back power, but we have to do it...for them. Look at what these people do in the majority, and look at the media structures that cover for them...the greatest of which comprise the right wing media human centipede.
cue Madeline Kahn, Flames...on the side of my face dot gif
I first thought this might be like Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin . . . uh, make that Lt. Col. Terrence Dumbfuck . . . the U.S. Army doc who disobeyed deployment orders, getting himself imprisoned abd booted out of Army, because the C-in-C was a natural-born citizen of Kenya (or Indonesia or wtf ever) and thus had no authority to send U.S. military personnel anywhere.
This, of course, it multiple orders of magnitude worse. At least Dr. Dumbfuck didn't steal patient records and give them to wingnut celebrities.
Remove all the trans context, leave this case as simply a HIPAA violation--a massive one--and this is a rather clear-cut case. "Mr Haim, did you access the medical records of X, Y, and Z?" "Yes." "Did you have any legitimate reason to access those records?" "No." "Did you then give those private, protected, medical records to Mr Rufo?" "Yes." Jury: "Guilty."
How many more months (weeks?) do people like me have left to be ourselves? I have zero interest in hiding myself again in men's clothes that make me physically ill. I will not go back.
Technically it sure as hell seems he also broke federal law about unauthorized data access (a law which is not limited to medical data, just a general "anti-hacking" statute). I think that the criminal HIPAA provision was the right charge, obviously, but if the DoJ had wanted to make an example of him, they could have brought more serious charges that are even easier to prove, with -- and I may be wrong on this b/c it's been a while since I looked at the subsection in question, but I think this is true -- double the potential prison time (20 years instead of 10). And even if I'm misremembering the maximum penalty, the hacking laws are frequently used and judges are used to sentencing people to actual prison for that. The HIPAA provisions not so much. I think the general bias in favour of white collar criminals would likely have resulted in 0 jail time even if Haim was convicted.
Personally I would have thrown the book at him, but as it happens I'm also not very electable.
In the benevolent despotism which has lived rent-free and toothless in my mind for nearly eight years, since the 45th president was oublietted and has had no contact or communication with humanity whatsoever, you and Chris Geidner and Erin Reed have been APPOINTED to the Eternal Civil Rights Commission.
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I was wondering why it isn't a HIPAA violation.
It absolutely is, and potentially theft since the doc took records of patients he did not care for and gave those records to a random right wing asshole.
Unfortunately, laws are now only enforced when the christofascist regime chooses.
Because it involved trans patients, of course.