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Transgender bill sparks concerns over patient privacy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-20 18:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- A bill concerning the future of transgender care in Tennessee is stirring controversy.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think that those decisions will stop with trans people? I\u2019ve got a bridge to sell you. This is absolutely about control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Callaghan Rudd is a community activist who is passionate about issues affecting the Chattanooga transgender community.<\/p>\n

Rudd believes that Tennessee House Bill 754, sponsored by Representative Jeremy Faison of Cosby, is a threat to the trans community.<\/p>\n

That bill would require clinics who perform gender transition surgeries to also perform detransition procedures, and require insurance companies involved to cover both kinds of procedures.<\/p>\n

It also would require clinics and insurances to report the occurrence of these procedures to the Tennessee Department of Health, who would then record various statistics into a database.<\/p>\n

This, according to Rudd, raises serious concerns about patient privacy.<\/p>\n

Rudd said, \u201cAsking anyone watching to imagine every private sexual health conversation that you have had with your doctor and then imagine that those sexual health decisions being published in a list with your contact information where you live, along with any behavioral or neurological health decisions or conditions that you have? That is what\u2019s being proposed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Representative Faison, during his presentation of this bill last week, said that the HIPAA rights of patients would not be violated.<\/p>\n

He said that he believes it is in the state\u2019s best interest to collect this data.<\/p>\n

Rep. Faison said, \u201cWe have worked with the AG\u2018s department to make sure what we\u2019re doing is HIPAA compliant. Also, it is very important for state legislatures all across America to collect data that\u2019s HIPAA compliant. We have to know what\u2019s going on like with any other medical condition we keep track of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rudd says they are not convinced that the data will be secure.<\/p>\n

Rudd said, \u201cTrans people aren\u2019t the only people…<\/p>\n

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