Missouri Issues ‘Emergency Regulation’ to Curb Gender Transition Procedures for Minors

After a Missouri medical clinic refused to voluntarily stop the gender-transitioning of minors, the state’s attorney general announced an “emergency regulation” adding safeguards to the practice temporarily.
At the same time, state lawmakers are advancing a law intended to permanently ban these surgical and hormonal interventions for youths.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey says existing state law covers “unfair, deceptive, and unconscionable business practices,” and he considers the transgender procedures to fall into that category unless patients are duly warned about the consequences.
“The regulation is necessary due to the skyrocketing number of gender transition interventions, despite rising concerns in the medical community that these procedures are experimental and lack clinical evidence of safety or success,” Bailey wrote in a March 20 news release….}