A Missouri law banning gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and some adults will take effect Monday after a circuit court judge on Friday declined to block it.
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Steven Ohmer on Friday rejected a request to temporarily block the enforcement of Missouri’s gender-affirming care ban, writing in an order that “petitioners have not clearly shown a sufficient threat of irreparable injury absent injunctive relief.”
Basically every piece of research we have done on the topic over the last several decades has pointed in the same direction: That timely gender-affirming care improves, and often saves, trans people’s lives, both adults and children.
And it’s worth pointing out that a blanket ban is not based on clinical merit. A blanket ban doesn’t allow the specifics of a patient’s case to be considered. It is a statement that gender-affirming care is never appropriate. It is purely ideological, and it will lead to the suffering and death of trans people.
These people have blood on their hands. I hope, one day, that they are held responsible for their actions.
This judge had to literally be sticking his head in the ground yelling “I’m not listening” to not see a) the literal mountain and decades of research that completely contradict his statement and b) his multitude of colleagues that have blocked these bans already based on this actual evidence.