“Hacking” Takes Down Missouri’s Anti-Trans Snitch Site

Christopher Kane reports at the Washington Blade:

The office of Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Friday removed an online form, first made available in March, that was used to collect reports or complaints about gender transition interventions that Missourians have either experienced or observed.

A spokesperson for Bailey, Madeline Sieren, told the Washington Blade the move was necessary to “ensure the integrity of a government website” pending the outcome of an investigation into efforts by “far-left activists” to “hack our system.”

On April 13, Bailey issued an emergency rule restricting guideline-directed gender-affirming healthcare for Missourians of all ages, imposing hurdles so onerous that the policy might be tantamount to a categorical ban on access to puberty blockers, hormones and gender-transition surgery.

Read the full article.

As you can see below, the spox for Missouri’s Attorney General doesn’t appear to know the definition of hacking. My March 26 report on the snitch line is here.

Missouri AG’s office removes online anti-trans complaint form https://t.co/ciudKTtHna

— Washington Blade (@WashBlade) April 22, 2023

Whoops—the Missouri snitch site was overwhelmed after “people flooded it with fanfiction, rambling anecdotes and the ‘Bee Movie’ script,” LOL:https://t.co/WodV1qSapp

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) April 22, 2023