AdministrativeErasure.org

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

This isn’t just about one incident. This is a blueprint. This page explains how a transgender patient trying to refill a state-covered, time-sensitive medication was reclassified as a potential threat—flagged by algorithms, profiled by policy, and handed to law enforcement. It also reveals how the same infrastructure could be used against anyone whose identity, condition, or voice is deemed inconvenient.

🧠 What is "Administrative Erasure"?

Administrative Erasure is the systemic dismantling of someone’s legal or social identity through backend infrastructure—not with force, but with process. It happens when data replaces context. When metadata replaces humanity. When compliance becomes a weapon.

It doesn’t rely on overt criminality. It doesn’t need a judge or a diagnosis. It just needs a system trained to escalate rather than understand.

In Samara Dorn’s case:

A Tier 2, legally protected hormone — estradiol valerate — was denied despite medical necessity.

Her voice, raised in desperation, was flagged as threatening.

Her gender and psychiatric history were quietly shared with police.

Her First Amendment speech was reframed as instability.

All without a subpoena. Without a warrant. Without her knowledge. This wasn’t a glitch. It was policy.

This isn’t healthcare. It’s institutionalized profiling—with trans lives in the crosshairs.

⚖️ Did Samara Dorn make violent threats?

No. And the police confirmed this. Samara spoke out—forcefully, lawfully, and politically—against being denied a medication she needed to survive. She used charged rhetoric, but never crossed into illegality.

According to the Grand Junction Police Department:

No charges were filed.

No threat was substantiated.

The case was closed voluntarily within 72 hours.

“Samara denied needing any support... and stated that [S]he ‘doesn't have any trust with LE’ and would not want to speak with us further without an attorney.”(Exhibit O – GJPD Narrative Log)

This was over before it began. But UnitedHealthcare kept going anyway.

📤 What did UnitedHealthcare send to law enforcement?

Without legal process, consent, or clinical justification, UnitedHealthcare transmitted:

🔊 Five full call recordings, capturing Samara’s voice, emotion, and speech pattern

🗂️ A narrative cover letter, framing her as a reputational and potential public safety risk

🔐 Her full legal name, surgery history, gender marker, and psychiatric medications

⏱️ Metadata logs and escalation notes, flagging her as “distressed” or “uncooperative”

They sent this package not to a patient advocate or case review board—but directly to the Grand Junction Police Department.

“We probably weren’t allowed to send that... but it’s done.”(UHC internal admission)

They also confirmed they hadn’t listened to all the calls before sending them.

That’s not care. That’s data laundering in the service of institutional retaliation.

🧬 Why was she calling UnitedHealthcare?

To refill a hormone prescription: estradiol valerate, prescribed post-surgery and covered under Colorado’s Medicaid Gender-Affirming Care Guidelines.

The facts:

✅ Prescribed on November 25, 2024 by Dr. Joshua Pearson

✅ Classified as a Tier 2 drug — pre-approved by Medicaid

✅ Subject to a 28-day discard rule under FDA/USP guidelines

UHC denied it, falsely citing dosage issues—even though dosage was irrelevant to the 28-day sterility window.

Samara’s care team made multiple override attempts. Samara herself made repeated calls. Instead of correcting the denial, UHC escalated her.

And then escalated again.

🔍 Was there a DHS referral?

Yes. Before contacting local police, UnitedHealthcare referred Samara to the Department of Homeland Security.

“She previously reported the following to the Department of Homeland Security and Detective Janda...”(Exhibit N – Page 2, Officer Daly)

No crime. No emergency. No medical crisis.

But her voice and identity were federalized without warning. The referral was never disclosed to her. She discovered it later through record requests.

This wasn’t a wellness check. It was a federal surveillance event triggered by trans advocacy.

🧠 Was this about mental health?

Only in how it was exploited. Samara did not place her mental health at issue. Her psychotherapist-patient privilege is preserved. No clinician will testify. No diagnosis is relied upon.

Yet UHC:

Disclosed her psychiatric medication list

Included diagnostic codes with gender-related metadata

Let law enforcement interpret that as a threat signal

They didn’t escalate because she was unstable. They escalated because she was inconvenient.

A Protective Order was filed to stop this exact abuse from recurring in discovery.

💥 Why does this matter beyond Samara?

Because the infrastructure is still running.

Because what happened to her could happen to:

Trans people

Disabled people

Poor people

Neurodivergent people

Medicaid recipients

Survivors

Dissenters

If your voice challenges a system trained to deny, you can be profiled.

The algorithm doesn’t ask what you meant. The database doesn’t care if you were right. The handoff doesn’t need a crime—just a trigger.

This case isn’t an outlier. It’s a warning.

⚖️ Is this FAQ part of a settlement negotiation?

No. Nothing in this FAQ—or anywhere on this website—is part of any confidential settlement offer or protected negotiation under Rule 408 or Rule 403. This page is built from:

Publicly filed exhibits

Lawfully acquired police and agency records

Firsthand facts and documented metadata

Constitutionally protected survivor speech

It contains no settlement terms, demands, or offers. It may not be cited as such in court.

📜 Legal Notice – Evidentiary Rules Compliance

This FAQ is a public legal education tool. It is not admissible under:

Federal Rule of Evidence 408¹

Federal Rule of Evidence 403²

Colorado Rule of Evidence 408³

Colorado Rule of Evidence 403⁴

It is protected by the First Amendment and may not be used to prove or disprove liability or damages.

Footnotes:

Federal Rule of Evidence 408 — Compromise Offers and Negotiations: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_408

Federal Rule of Evidence 403 — Excluding Relevant Evidence for Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_403

Colorado Rule of Evidence 408 — Compromise and Offers to Compromise: https://casetext.com/rule/colorado-court-rules/colorado-rules-of-evidence/article-iv-relevancy-and-its-limits/rule-408-compromise-and-offers-to-compromise

Colorado Rule of Evidence 403 — Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time: https://casetext.com/rule/colorado-court-rules/colorado-rules-of-evidence/article-iv-relevancy-and-its-limits/rule-403-exclusion-of-relevant-evidence-on-grounds-of-prejudice-confusion-or-waste-of-time

I Was Supposed to Stay Quiet. I Didn't. They thought I would disappear. They counted on silence. On shame. On exhaustion.

But here I am. And here’s the truth:

You don’t get to erase people and expect them not to respond.

What comes next isn’t noise. It’s resistance—with receipts

This isn’t a warning. It’s a reckoning. And I’m not just here to speak—I’m here to be heard.

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They called it a “welfare check.”

But I wasn’t missing. I wasn’t a danger to myself. I wasn’t having a mental health emergency. I was a transgender Medicaid recipient who had spoken too clearly, asked too many questions, and reached the end of what the system could tolerate. That’s when the silence began—not a bureaucratic oversight, but a calculated refusal. And that’s when the data started to move.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. This isn’t speculation. This is a lived account of what happens when institutional power meets metadata profiling, and healthcare denial becomes a surveillance protocol.

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What Happened?

This site shares my first-person narrative—because no lawsuit, no headline, and no corporate statement will ever fully convey what it means to be erased while still alive.

• I was denied medically necessary care that had already been approved.
• I was then framed as a potential threat based on private health information.
• That information, protected under HIPAA, was passed to law enforcement.
• There was no emergency. No warrant. No court order.
• There was only a transgender woman alone in her home—suddenly surrounded by armed officers.

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Why Tell This Story?

Because I survived it.
Because others might not.
Because “administrative erasure” is not a metaphor—it’s a method.
And because the people responsible will never admit what they’ve done unless the truth is louder than their silence.

I’m not here to shame individuals. I’m here to expose a systemic pattern: when someone like me becomes inconvenient, the system withdraws care and escalates control. That’s not medicine. That’s profiling with a clinical face.

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What You’ll Find in This Archive

• Redacted but verifiable evidence that aligns with the public record
• A survivor’s voice preserved on her own terms
• Legal filings that document the breach, the silence, and the aftermath
• Whistleblower disclosures and internal metadata patterns
• A reconstruction of what they tried to make disappear

This is not about revenge.
It’s about documentation.
It’s about survival.
And this is not a story they wanted told.

But I’m telling it anyway.