Missouri Republican lawmakers have filed more than two dozen bills directed at the LGBTQ community, including some that target gender transition therapy.
JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI — Newly launched investigations into care provided to children and teens at a transgender clinic at Washington University in St. Louis could provide fodder for Republicans in the Missouri Legislature seeking to ban the kinds of therapy offered at the center.
The measure also would slash public funding to any institution that provides the therapy to minors and bans the state from using Medicaid dollars to reimburse any of the procedures. “Each side uses whistleblowers from their point of view as all they need for evidence to prove their point,” Lavender said.
Whistleblower report on St. Louis transgender clinic triggers calls for federal, state probes Jamie Reed affidavit, released by Missouri attorney generalShe alleges in The Free Press article that instead of providing mental health treatment to children who needed it, the center gave them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones. She also alleged the center regularly referred minors for gender-transition surgery, contrary to public assurances by its doctors.
The article prompted a number of responses from Republicans, who have made transgender issues affecting a relatively small population a key plank in their platform. Rep. Tony Lovasco, an O’Fallon Republican and member of the House General Laws Committee, which is weighing bills on transgender health care, said Friday work on the legislation was still ongoing and that the report “absolutely affects the discussion.”
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