1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

Block the Trump DOJ's subpoenas demanding private health data of trans youth from hospitals. This isn't a niche issue — it's a direct attack on healthcare privacy that will affect every single one of your constituents. The DOJ is forcing hospitals to hand over sensitive, identifying health records of patients under 19. Hospitals are fighting back, but the precedent being set here is the real danger. Palantir — a Denver-based data company with contracts across the CIA, FBI, IRS, Defense Department, and HHS — has former employees embedded throughout this administration. If private health data starts flowing between defense and health agencies, Palantir's existing denial-management software can be turned against anyone. Today the targets are trans kids and the doctors treating them. Tomorrow it's anyone who buys Plan B, anyone whose diet doesn't satisfy an algorithm, anyone a government official decides has engaged in "bad behavior." More on this at https://gender-defiant.ghost.io/tiny-useful-fact-3/ Medicare and Medicaid access controlled by HHS makes this leverage over tens of millions of people. Once the government establishes that trans kids don't deserve health data privacy, the argument that nobody does becomes easy to make. Speak out against these subpoenas publicly and push for legislative protections that prevent health data from being shared across federal agencies without explicit patient consent.