Some say a new emergency rule in Missouri could, in effect, block gender-transitioning medical procedures for many adults and children in that state.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey says he crafted the new rule, believed to be the first in the nation, to protect patients from “deceptive” business practices surrounding transgender procedures.
But the measure sparked a firestorm among transgender-rights activists, saying Bailey has opened a new front in the war over transgender procedures in America.
“This is a nuclear bomb on trans people in Missouri. Its effects will be felt for years if it goes into effect,” activist Erin Reed wrote on Twitter.
More than 3 million people viewed Reed’s tweet that reported: “Missouri AG just essentially banned gender-affirming care for most trans adults via emergency rule.”
Although many states have proposed or enacted laws banning or restricting the procedures on minors, the Missouri rule is said to be the first that also affects transgender adults.
In a Tweet, the Human Rights Campaign said, “This isn’t just an overreach of authority—it’s an outright attempt to endanger and ultimately erase transgender people statewide.”
Missouri’s new rule (pdf) clarifies that gender-transitioning medical treatments are illegal under existing consumer-protection laws unless medical providers meet certain informed-consent and patient-screening requirements. The rule will take effect on April 27 and expire on Feb. 6, 2024.
Under the rule, medical providers must give patients specific warnings about risks. They also must ensure that patients have received mental-health assessments, have undergone 18 months of visits with a mental health therapist, and have resolved any psychiatric symptoms.
Special Concerns About Youths
The rule covers patients of all ages, but some provisions are tailored to minors.
Providers must assess whether “social contagion” played a role in youths’ gender distress and must determine whether young people suffer from “social media addiction or compulsion” that contributed to discontent over their gender, the rule says.
Current patients may continue their gender-transitioning procedures as long as the mental-health assessments and treatment prescribed in the rule are promptly followed, the rule says.
The rules are unreasonable and restrict transgender people’s access to “gender-affirming care,” according to a joint statement from Lambda Legal and the Missouri chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Calling Bailey’s action “a shocking attempt to exploit Missouri’s consumer protection laws,” the groups said they would take legal action against the rule if necessary.
In an April 14 email to The Epoch Times, Bailey replied: “We look forward to defending our regulation in court if we need to. This regulation injects an ounce of common sense into gender-transition procedures.”
Bailey said recent revelations about the dangers of these interventions compelled him to act quickly to protect the public, including children.
In an April 14 interview with Fox News, Bailey called the rule “innovative,” the first time an attorney general’s authority has been used to create a rule adding safeguards to gender-transitioning practices.
“I would encourage other states to adopt the same policy,” he said.
‘Clandestine Network’ Harming Children
The rule applies to “any puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgery, for the purpose of transitioning gender, decreasing gender incongruence, or treating gender dysphoria,” which is persistent distress over one’s gender.
Under the rule, providing such gender-transition interventions without specific patient evaluations and warnings is “unfair, deceptive, fraudulent or otherwise unlawful” under Missouri’s consumer-protection laws.
Bailey announced his intention to impose such a rule last month. He said concerns have risen over “an immense increase in the use of these life-altering interventions, which have serious side effects.”
Meanwhile, his office has been investigating a gender clinic whistleblower’s allegations since January.
“An investigation has revealed that some providers in Missouri prescribe gender transition interventions without any individualized assessment, contrary to safeguards established in scientific literature and by medical organizations,” the rule states.
In addition, Bailey asserted in a news release: “My office has uncovered a clandestine network of clinics across the state who are harming children by ignoring the science.”
Critics, however, accused Bailey of relying on “debunked” claims that the procedures are harmful.
In his email, Bailey said, “I would point leftists who are ignoring the science to our six pages of endnotes citing to [sic] clinical studies and medical journals supporting that transition intervention procedures are dangerous and purely experimental.”
transgender rights activist = homonazis
Under the rule, medical providers must give patients specific warnings about risks. They also must ensure that patients have received mental-health assessments, have undergone 18 months of visits with a mental health therapist, and have resolved any psychiatric symptoms.
Now how would any sane person say that the “Missouri AG just essentially banned gender-affirming care for most trans adults via emergency rule.”
There has been homosexuals around since the times of Moses, But the Holy Bible states even back then –
Lev 20:13
13 “‘If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Rom 1:24-27
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
“President Biden recently expressed support for “gender affirming” medical treatment for transgender minors, which pressures medical professionals to affirm and not question a child’s gender identity. But 18-year-old Chloe Cole, who was born female and transitioned to male as a young teen before “detransitioning,” thinks Biden’s stance could lead more young people down the road toward irreversible medical treatments. “What Biden was saying is dangerous,” Cole warned. “He’s trying to advocate for further experimentation on children. ”The California teen, who began identifying as a boy at age 12, started puberty blockers and testosterone treatment at 13, and had an elective double mastectomy at 15 to masculinize her chest. By 16, she regretted the surgeries, which she says were spurred by insecurities about her appearance and the influence of social media rather than gender dysphoria.”
Perverts need spiritual and psychiatric help. What they don’t need help is mutilating their own bodies. And they certainly don’t need help encouraging others to do the same thing to theirs.
How about that! A state that dares to fight back against the alphabet people and their supporters. With any luck there will be more.
We can only hope!
Finally, a dose of common sense! Even the ultra-liberal mental health community recognizes that gender dysphoria is a mental disease, and that “transgenders” have an enormously high suicide rate – whether or not they “transition.” Demanding that these confused people get some psychiatric evaluation before mutilating their bodies with irreversible drugs and surgeries is not only NOT “an outright attempt to endanger and ultimately erase transgender people statewide,” but is actually the kindest thing that can be done for them. I am PROUD to live in Missouri today!
Oh no, the AG has invoked the dreaded full disclosure, truth, and information clause. It’s the kind of thing mutilators and deviates hate the worse since it keeps them from simply make up their own trans truth. Anyone who is cheerleading on a person being quickly pump full of hormones and blindly going under the knife is not doing them any favors. But hey, the more people who get mutilated the better the ones who are already freaks of nature can feel about themselves.