The criminal penalties for HIPAA violations can be severe. The minimum fine for willful violations of HIPAA Rules is $50,000. The maximum criminal penalty for a HIPAA violation by an individual is $250,000. Restitution may also need to be paid to the victims. In addition to the financial penalty, a jail term is likely for a criminal violation of HIPAA Rules.
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No let’s say that there are one hundred trans students, that is $5 million to $25 million in fines! Now multiply that be all the colleges and universities in Florida and you get the size of the HIPAA intrusion the governor is proposing.
Ron DeSantis requested the medical records of all trans students in Florida's public universities. Now students are planning a statewide walkout.
Insider
By Annalise Mabe
February 16, 2023
Students across Florida are planning a statewide walkout after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested all public universities comply in delivering data from student health services on transgender students who sought gender-affirming care at the institutions.DeSantis asked to see the records of any student who has experienced gender dysphoria in the past five years. In addition, he wants their ages and the dates they received gender-affirming care. The deadline to submit those records was February 10.
Insider has confirmed that University of Florida, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, Florida A&M University, Florida International University, and the University of North Florida have complied with the request, but has yet to hear back from the rest.
Students at these universities are now planning rallies for next week along with the statewide walkout on February 23. Ben Braver, a junior at the University of South Florida and the outreach officer for the school's College Democrats chapter, is leading the initiative, known as the Stand for Freedom Florida Walkout.
"Hate is spread when it's innocuous, when it seems silly, and when it seems like taking a stand is an overreaction," Braver told Insider. "We, just like any generation, need to stand for the civil rights that have already been fought for, the ones that have been won, and those which are at stake right now."
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"They want to legislate us out of existence," Pham said. "That starts with attacking our healthcare, attacking our right to exist in public spaces, attempting surveillance — all of that."
Now hear me all the trans students in Florida… sue the pants off them! File a HIPAA violation with the federal Health and Human Services!
What the governor is doing is a violation of the law! There is no medical reason for our medical records! The only reason for this is political persecution!
This is what authoritarian governments do. That is what the NAZIs did when they put us in gas chambers!
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Amy Schneider blasts New York Times’ anti-transgender coverage as the paper defends JK Rowling
"I just get so tired of being told that my health and safety count less than cis people’s, because I’m weird and different, unlike normal innocent cis people."
LGBTQ Nation
By John Russell
February 17, 2023
A day after receiving two separate open letters demanding that The New York Times improve its coverage of transgender people, the paper seemingly tripled down on the very type of coverage that has long been criticized as inaccurate, uninformed, and dangerous.And Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider had some choice words about the Times‘ refusal to consider the harm their coverage is causing transgender people.
On Thursday, the Times published a defense of notoriously anti-trans author J.K. Rowling in its opinion section, while the paper’s top editor issued a staff memo warning journalists that public criticism of its coverage of transgender issues will “not be tolerated.”
In the memo, executive editor Joe Kahn wrote that the Times had “received a letter delivered by GLAAD, an advocacy group, criticizing coverage in The Times of transgender issues,” according to The Hill.
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Schneider—who signed the GLAAD letter alongside celebrities like Gabrielle Union, Judd Apatow, and others—took to Twitter on Thursday to blast the column and the Times’ response to the two letters.
“If certain famous billionaire authors were to advocate for ‘Whites only’ spaces, we’d all see it as the hate speech that it is. But when they advocate for ‘cis only’ spaces, the most powerful newspaper in the country rushes to their defense,” Schneider wrote. “I just get so tired of being told that my health and safety count less than cis people’s, because I’m weird and different, unlike normal innocent cis people.”
“And then when I disagree, and say that trans people deserve safety too, they smile at me pityingly, and explain that their view is ‘impartial’ and mine is ‘advocacy,’” she continued.
Yeah I hear that all the time that my opinion is “biased” and their view is “impartial” that is why we need allies to speak up for us!
You need to review the HIPAA law. Only certain entities are covered by HIPAA not everyone or every organization. Their is a huge lack of understanding of this.
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