(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Missouri moves to block gender-affirming care for ALL transgender adults in MO [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-24 Trans lives really do matter In yet another installment of “You have got to be fucking kidding me”, the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey fresh from having his fascist “Report gender affirming care” website suitably flooded with fake reports, has issued an EMERGENCY DECREE that limits gender affirming care for ALL transgender people in Missouri, children AND adults, and is set to take effect this week. This is, of course, being done in a most Orwellian fashion, and are “meant to keep both parents of transgender youth and transgender adults more informed before receiving gender-affirming care, describing them as an "innovative approach" for people to "have all the information necessary to make good decisions." Excuse me while I vomit. So in the name of “making good decisions”, the State of Missouri has decided that the government knows more than ACTUAL transgender people. Because fundamentally, Republicans do NOT believe that transgender people are making good decisions about their own life and healthcare. This BLATANTLY fascist move is being fought in court by the ACLU, of course, who state: “The Attorney General’s dangerous and unlawful twisting of Missouri’s consumer protection laws corrupt our health care system by inserting the government into the medical decisions of people and their doctors in order to play politics at the expense of life-saving medical care,” said Gillian Wilcox, Deputy Director for Litigation at the ACLU of Missouri. “This usurping of power will not only inflict harm on transgender adolescents, but its application will immediately jeopardize the health care of transgender adults throughout the state. This chicanery is the Attorney General’s attempt to legislate and harm transgender Missourians while ignoring evidence-based medical treatment for his own political gain. Every person has the right to express themselves, control their bodies, and seek the health care they need while doing so free of prejudice, discrimination, and violence.” This is, of course, a war against the transgender community. They are LITERALLY attempting to erase our entire community, our entire way of BEING, entirely due to their hyper-religious opposition to the entire CONCEPT of being transgender. "We are living through an all-out attack on transgender Missourian's lives and the very ability to exist," says Robert Fischer, the communications director for the Missouri-based LGBTQ advocacy group PROMO. This move is highly unusual in that it doesn’t just target children, as they are doing in other states, but targets adults as well. For one thing, the guidelines weren't passed by a legislature or signed by a governor, but rather derived from Bailey's powers to enforce laws around consumer protection. (Officials in Texas and Florida have also used rules to try to limit transgender care.) And the rules are not inconsequential: Providers are barred from giving gender-affirming care if, among other things, someone has not received 15 hourly sessions of therapy over at least 18 months, has not been screened for autism and has not had documented gender dysphoria for three years. All in the name of “protecting” transgender people from themselves, of course. Because apparently we’re not adult enough to make our own healthcare decisions and must rely upon the government to do it for us. Remember, when the fascists are done coming after us they WILL find another target to hate. More on this unbelievable rule here: www.npr.org/… [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/24/2165722/-Missouri-moves-to-block-gender-affirming-care-for-ALL-transgender-adults-in-MO Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/