Gay Marriage / LGBTQ Rights / Equality Act

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Court rules Missouri AG entitled to certain Planned Parenthood transgender care records

A St. Louis judge has ordered Planned Parenthood to turn over certain documents to Attorney General Andrew Bailey in his ongoing investigation of transgender health care providers.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer on Thursday ruled that the state’s Merchandising Practices Act entitled the Republican attorney general to documents he requested that weren’t protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal law known as HIPAA that protects patient privacy.

Bailey, in a news release, declared victory. He called it a “big day” and said “no stone will be left unturned.”

“There is no more important fight than to ensure Missouri is the safest state in the nation for children,” Bailey said.

Richard Muniz, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said in a statement the decision was a “deep disappointment” but said “we are grateful the court understood the Attorney General could not violate the privacy of our patients.”

“By allowing the Attorney General to continue his sham investigation, the court has green-lit the ongoing assault on Missourians’ health care,” Muniz said.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/gov ... 53629.html

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[John Thomas8]

I'm searching for a legitimate reason for any AG needing access to this information:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-att ... 30617.html

Bailey, a Republican, is investigating providers of gender-affirming care in the state, which has outlawed the provision of such care to minors and certain adults. His demand for information from Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri came in March 2023 as part of his investigation of whether Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center or other health care entities in Missouri “have engaged in or are engaging in any practices declared to be unlawful,” as he stated in a letter to Planned Parenthood.

[Resume18]

I'm searching for a legitimate reason for any AG needing access to this information:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-att ... 30617.html

Bailey, a Republican, is investigating providers of gender-affirming care in the state, which has outlawed the provision of such care to minors and certain adults. His demand for information from Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri came in March 2023 as part of his investigation of whether Washington University’s Pediatric Transgender Center or other health care entities in Missouri “have engaged in or are engaging in any practices declared to be unlawful,” as he stated in a letter to Planned Parenthood.

Being cruel to members of a marginalized community is perfectly legitimate to those of a certain bent.

Speaking of bent, they should get bent.

[Rolodex]

Some lawyer needs to get a hold of that. HIPAA doesn't always cover what people think it does, but I don't understand this at all.

I think they tried to do this in Tennessee...they got records from Vanderbilt about gender affirming care?

[jemcanada2]

Here’s a video of Adam Mockler causing MAGAts to experience cognitive dissonance, this time over transgender rights and gay marriage.

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Michelangelo and the most sublime declarations of gay love in art
Michelangelo announced his love for a young upper-class gentleman in verse and prose, but he also gave Tommaso de’ Cavalieri some of the greatest homoerotic drawings ever created – now taking centre stage at the British Museum

Jonathan Jones
Mon 29 Apr 2024 17.41 CEST

Tommaso de’ Cavalieri was the light of the age, unique in the world – at least in the eyes of the man who loved him. That ardent lover was Michelangelo, who described Cavalieri in these glowing words in a letter from 1532. If only a portrait of Tommaso survived we could have seen his face, which the fiftysomething artist claimed in a poem was so beautiful it gave him a glimpse of paradise itself.

Michelangelo did not just announce his love for this young upper-class citizen of Rome – who knew the pope and prominent cardinals socially – in verse and prose. He also gave Cavalieri some of the greatest drawings ever created. Up until this time, the mighty sculptor, painter and architect had used drawing as a tool to develop ideas: but the so-called “Presentation Drawings” he did for Tommaso aspire to be completed works of art. They star in the British Museum’s new exhibition of Michelangelo’s later graphic works, and demand a close look, for these are perhaps the most sublime declarations of gay love in art.

That may not be instantly obvious when you look at Michelangelo’s The Fall of Phaeton, from the BM’s own Michelangelo collection. It illustrates a Greek myth, retold by the Roman poet Ovid, of the overconfident youth Phaeton who has borrowed the flying chariot in which his father, the sun god, crosses the sky from dawn to dusk. He’s lost control of the horses so Jupiter, to stop his fiery chariot from burning the earth to a crisp, has struck him down. This is a sculptor’s drawing. You can feel the dead weight of the horses, their blunt mass, as they plummet. Phaeton’s naked upturned body dangles in freefall. On the ground, already in mourning for the doomed youth, his sisters are metamorphosing into poplar trees. There’s a male mourner, too: Cycnus who, as Ovid tells it, loved him and was devastated by his death. In his grief, he transformed into a swan. And it is as a swan that Michelangelo portrays this bereft lover.

Other drawings he gave Cavalieri are much more obviously homoerotic to our eyes untrained in classical mythology. In The Punishment of Tityus, an eagle pecks at a man’s naked form. It is a scene of torment, but it’s clear Michelangelo finds pleasure in this pain: the eagle rests on top of Tityus like a lover, and the nude man’s body is tilted to ensure a clear view of his genitals. Instead of a gory depiction of exposed entrails as other artists have pictured it, Michelangelo feasts his and Tommaso’s eyes on a softly shaded, lusciously sensual encounter.



https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... st-decades