{"id":124731,"date":"2024-01-31T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124731"},"modified":"2024-01-31T15:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T15:42:34","slug":"texas-attorney-general-expands-pursuit-of-medical-records-for-trans-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=124731","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Texas Attorney General Expands Pursuit Of Medical Records For Trans Youth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/texas-ag-trans-youth-medical-records_n_65b81785e4b01c5c3a37c713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas<\/a>\u00a0Attorney General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/ken-paxton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ken Paxton<\/a>\u00a0requested the medical records of Texas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/archive\/ca\/topic\/transgender-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trans<\/a>\u00a0youth who sought gender-affirming care from a Georgia-based telehealth clinic last week, escalating an invasive campaign that has alarmed many advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The Georgia clinic, QueerMed, confirmed last week to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/politics\/texas\/article\/paxton-transgender-request-18626135.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Houston Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0that it received Paxton\u2019s request for data well before the clinic stopped providing care for youth when the state passed its ban on gender-affirming care last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/01\/26\/texas-attorney-general-trans-documents-georgia-ken-paxton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A separate report from The Texas Tribune noted<\/a>\u00a0that Paxton sought data about patients back in January 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;Texas\u00a0Attorney General\u00a0Ken Paxton\u00a0requested the medical records of Texas\u00a0trans\u00a0youth who sought gender-affirming care from a Georgia-based telehealth clinic last week, escalating an invasive campaign that has alarmed many advocates. The Georgia clinic, QueerMed, confirmed last week to the\u00a0Houston Chronicle\u00a0that it received Paxton\u2019s request for data well before the clinic stopped providing care for youth when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124732,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124731\/revisions\/124732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}