Posted on Apr 26, 2023
Lawsuit seeks to halt Missouri attorney general’s rules on gender-affirming care
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Transgender advocates say the rules are unprecedented restrictions on adults’ ability to get hormone therapy and gender transition surgery.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s rules restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and adults are facing a legal challenge.
The ACLU of Missouri, Lambda Legal and the Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner law firm filed a suit in St. Louis County Court on Monday to prevent the emergency guidelines from going into effect Thursday. Among other arguments, the suit says Bailey is going well beyond his power to regulate consumer protection matters in pushing for the rules.
“He is sort of taking a law that is about refrigerators and using it to go after trans people and tell doctors and other medical providers how they can practice,” said Nora Huppert, a staff attorney with Lambda Legal.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s rules restricting gender-affirming care for transgender minors and adults are facing a legal challenge.
The ACLU of Missouri, Lambda Legal and the Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner law firm filed a suit in St. Louis County Court on Monday to prevent the emergency guidelines from going into effect Thursday. Among other arguments, the suit says Bailey is going well beyond his power to regulate consumer protection matters in pushing for the rules.
“He is sort of taking a law that is about refrigerators and using it to go after trans people and tell doctors and other medical providers how they can practice,” said Nora Huppert, a staff attorney with Lambda Legal.
Lawsuit seeks to halt Missouri attorney general’s rules on gender-affirming care
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..."Rather than ensure that patients are protected by common-sense safeguards, these organizations are racing to court in an effort to continue their ideologically based procedures masquerading as medicine,” Bailey said.
He said in an interview last week he was confident his rules could hold up in court, adding that he’s “standing up to make sure that patients have the information they need to make informed health care decisions.”
Since the rules were released earlier this month, some people have sought gender-affirming care because the guidelines have a clause exempting those who are already receiving care. But some health care experts said the rules are so onerous that providers may be hesitant to provide care for anyone, including existing patients.
Huppert said it’s important to fight Bailey’s rules in court not only to ensure Missourians still have access to treatments, but also to provide a disincentive for other states to enact similar guidelines.
“There have been attempts to imitate what other states are doing and build off and expand and become even crueler and even less rational in the way that they go after gender-affirming care,” Huppert said."
..."Rather than ensure that patients are protected by common-sense safeguards, these organizations are racing to court in an effort to continue their ideologically based procedures masquerading as medicine,” Bailey said.
He said in an interview last week he was confident his rules could hold up in court, adding that he’s “standing up to make sure that patients have the information they need to make informed health care decisions.”
Since the rules were released earlier this month, some people have sought gender-affirming care because the guidelines have a clause exempting those who are already receiving care. But some health care experts said the rules are so onerous that providers may be hesitant to provide care for anyone, including existing patients.
Huppert said it’s important to fight Bailey’s rules in court not only to ensure Missourians still have access to treatments, but also to provide a disincentive for other states to enact similar guidelines.
“There have been attempts to imitate what other states are doing and build off and expand and become even crueler and even less rational in the way that they go after gender-affirming care,” Huppert said."
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