Tbh just names and addresses is bad enough. Find a way to make it public record and we’re screwed. My guess is they’ll start adding trans people to the sex offender registry, but I’m open to hearing other horrifying predictions about where this shit is going.
I grew up in a relatively conservative family, and this is exactly the kind of shit that would make perfect sense to my parents. My mother in particular bought every single damn dumb rumor she heard from rainbow parties, drugs in candy, jelly bracelet colors being what sex acts you’ve done. There were so damn many she managed to give me anxiety, only for me to find out like 15-20 years later that most of them were just retooled racism and/or homophobia. Figuring it out did not fix the anxiety.
For more of a work anecdote we once had someone call demanding to speak to a patient, and making various threats towards the secretary when she wouldn’t confirm the patient’s presence without their password (psychiatry, vulnerable population/stigma means an extra need for privacy). We found this person’s interaction kinda sus and asked the patient about it and they said it was probably their ex and were vehement that this person not be allowed in or to even know they were there, which is fine because that’s the default policy anyway (for a reason!).
Next night they call back sweet as pie and ask if the patient has been discharged. Our secretary that night didn’t even know the background but is an absolute detail oriented queen that we all stan and said the exact same thing she would say if they were still there, no password no info. Which is good, because could you imagine if your domestic abuser knew you’d just left the nice safe locked and restricted unit? This patient was in and right back out faster than I could blink so I know so little about their actual specific story but it could also leak over into other areas of life other than direct safety, how about if they know you stayed at all and try to drag your mental health history into a custody agreement? Now think about what the government can do with info like that.