![]() “A lawyer is now engaging in the direct regulation of private medical decisions of Missouri families,” Harvard Law clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo wrote on Twitter. “I’m terrified of what this means for my child and his mental health if he cannot get the gender-affirming care he needs.” “It’s absolutely horrifying that the attorney general would think he is better informed than medical professionals and parents who absolutely have the best interest of their children in mind,” Jennifer Goldring, the mother of a 16-year-old who is receiving gender-affirming care, told The St. Parents of transgender and nonbinary kids in the state expressed dismay at Bailey’s action. It is clear office does not respect the professional guidelines of every major medical association in our country, who agrees gender-affirming healthcare is the standard of care for transgender Missourians, and instead is abusing his political power by asserting his beliefs by stating access to lifesaving healthcare is part of a “woke, leftist agenda.”īailey’s proposal is a “gross and reprehensible action that puts the health, wellness, and very lives of transgender and gender-expansive youth at risk,” the group added. ![]() PROMO, an LGBTQ advocacy organization in Missouri, condemned Bailey’s planned action, stating: “Scientific evidence shows - and the medical community agrees - that gender-affirming care is safe, effective and life-saving.” Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, said to The St. “Bailey’s lack of medical expertise shows,” Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of the St. The attorney general would require autism screenings for those seeking gender-affirming care, and would subject trans youth to annual screenings for “social contagion with respect to the patient’s gender identity” - suggesting that Bailey believes that kids seeking such care are only doing so because of their peers. If mental health issues are discovered, gender-affirming treatment would be delayed until the issues are “treated and resolved.” During that time, trans and nonbinary youth would have to attend 15 separate hour-long therapy sessions, and receive treatment for any “mental health comorbidities” before physicians could recommend gender-affirming care. The new regulations would limit all types of care for transgender kids, implementing an 18-month waiting period before any child or teen could receive gender-affirming treatment.
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