https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/il-gov-pritzker-signs-law-protecting>Governor Pritzker rounded out Pride Month by signing a trio of bills that will protect transgender people’s privacy from out-of-state attacks—most notably, by removing testosterone from the list of prescriptions required by law to be added to a government database.>“The work will continue until all Illinoisans are safe, healthy, and free to express their truest selves,” said Governor JB Pritzker in a June 28 press release.>The Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program (ILPMP) is a longstanding interstate database that enables health care providers to track the prescription of certain substances, in order to curb drug abuse. Transgender people are often prescribed testosterone for hormone replacement therapy—it is most notably associated with trans men, but it may also be prescribed to any trans person who receives gender-affirming surgery impacting their hormone production.>The bill, HB 4834, also preemptively banned adding certain drugs to the program in the future—such as estrogen or mifepristone and misoprostol, a pair of medications used for at-home abortions.>Policies like this “protect trans people from invasive surveillance over their health care,” Alejandra Caraballo, a Harvard law instructor and privacy expert, told Erin in the Morning. In a 2025 report she penned for this newsletter, she explained how similar systems, called Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks.>“The database enabling this crackdown was never billed as a tool for political persecution,” she wrote. “PDMPs were originally established in the 2000s to combat the opioid epidemic and ‘doctor shopping’ for narcotics. Every U.S. state and territory now maintains a PDMP—an electronic registry of controlled substance prescriptions, typically Schedules II through V, that doctors and pharmacies are required to report.”
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