Witch Hunts Are Back in the Vogue
As part of a “run of the mill” inquiry into possible billing fraud — as officials described their investigation — the Tennessee attorney general’s office demanded that Vanderbilt University Medical Center hand over a vast array of documents from its clinic for gender-affirming care.
According to Tennessee Lookout, a nonprofit journalism site, those documents include:
- complete medical records for an undisclosed number of patients
- résumés of clinic physicians
- information about the clinic’s Trans Buddy volunteers
- emails sent to and from a public portal for questions about L.G.B.T.Q. health
- the names of people referred to the gender-affirming clinic for care
The dangerous slide of personal freedoms continue in an environment where democracy is under serious pressure globally.