Missouri Attorney General took down a form about transgender people after activists spammed it

The form had asked people to report concerns about “gender transition intervention” in Missouri. The attorney general’s office says it was hacked and is being investigated.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office is still investigating after several viral internet posts encouraged thousands of people to submit joke responses to a form seeking information about transgender people.

The form, launched in March, was intended to serve as a tip line for people to report “harm from gender transition interventions” or “troubling practices at transition clinics in Missouri.”

But internet users saw the form as an attempt to surveil transgender Missourians. They spammed the page with false names and reports, including the script of the 2007 animated film Bee Movie, explicit fanfiction and fake stories. Some coded scripts to automatically fill and submit the form.