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A Missouri judge has upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth and some adults in the state, citing outdated studies and the errant belief that the science behind such care is “unsettled.”, siding with state Republican lawmakers who passed the ban into law in 2023. The deceptively titled Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act forbids doctors and other medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgical options to anyone under the age of 18.
from the Endocrine Society, which wrongly stated that most children who identify as transgender change their minds later in life. (The Endocrine Society has since changed its position, and while it has a more conservative approach than other organizations, nowIn citing the outdated studies, Carter bogusly asserted that a doctor providing gender-affirming care to a transgender child is equivalent to a doctor prescribing a child hazardous drugs.
In response to Carter’s ruling, Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Missouri — which is representing health care providers and families suing the state to block the law — said that an appeal was imminent. We must give ourselves space to grieve and feel our fear, feel our rage, and keep in the forefront of our mind the stark truth that millions of real human lives are on the line. And simultaneously, we’ve got to get to work, take stock of our resources, and prepare to throw ourselves full force into the movement.Even as we are reeling, we’re summoning up all the energy we can to face down what’s coming, because we know that one of the sharpest weapons against fascism is publishing the truth.
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