Gender-Affirming Care for Adults Is Now Basically Banned in Missouri

[Nevilledog]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjzv8/missouri-gender-affirming-care-ban

Missouri is the first state to severely restrict gender-affirming care for transgender adults amid a nationwide, GOP-led push to legislate away trans rights.

The state’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced an emergency regulation on Thursday that aims to limit access to gender-affirming care for Missourians by setting sweeping new rules for those seeking treatment.

“I will always fight to protect children because gender transition interventions are experimental,” Bailey said in a statement. Science actually supports gender-affirming care, and it’s not experimental.

“My office is stepping up to protect children throughout the state while we investigate the allegations and how they are harming children,” Bailey added. The medical consensus in the U.S.—including endorsements from the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Endocrine Society—is that gender-affirming care, which includes name changes, puberty blockers, and hormone replacement therapy, is safe, effective, and medically necessary.

The emergency rule makes it impossible for transgender people of all ages to access gender-affirming care unless they have exhibited a medically documented “long-lasting, persistent and intense” pattern of gender dysphoria for three years. They also have to prove they’ve received “a full psychological or psychiatric assessment” and “15 separate, hourly sessions” of therapy, at least 10 of which must be with the same therapist. This follows several anti-trans lobbyists and lawmakers, who’ve attempted to falsely equate transness with “severe mental illness.”

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[Matthew28]

1. Needs to be sued

and challenged in court. Should be unconstitutional.

[BeckyDem]

2. Republicans using trans people as their latest boogeyman.

They do next to nothing for the American worker and use differences as a distraction from that fact.

Check out the poverty rates in these states, they're appalling.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. yep

[badhair77]

3. Why can't people just mind their own business.

How are people living their own best lives interfering with these busy bodies. A lawsuit seems to be the next response.

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[gay texan]

6. Mr. President, please do something.... n/t