A Missouri judge ruled Friday that a ban on gender-transition health care for minors can take effect on Monday, as scheduled.
The ruling by St. Louis Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer means that beginning next week, health care providers are prohibited from providing gender-transition surgeries to children. Minors who began puberty blockers or hormones before Monday will be allowed to continue on those medications, but other minors won’t have access to those drugs.
The ACLU of Missouri, Lambda Legal, and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner last month sued to overturn the law on behalf of doctors, LGBTQ+ organizations, and three families of transgender minors, arguing that it is discriminatory. They asked that the law be temporarily blocked as the court challenge against it plays out. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 22.“The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear.
The office cited restrictions on gender-transition treatments for minors in countries including England and Norway, although those nations have not enacted outright bans.
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