Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has confirmed that a state court has upheld the state’s ban on transgender “care” for children.
“We are the first state in the nation to successfully defend such a law at the trial court level. I’m extremely proud of the thousands of hours my office put in to shine a light on the lack of evidence supporting these irreversible procedures. We will never stop fighting to ensure Missouri is the safest state in the nation for children,” Bailey said in a statement on Tuesday.
Baily’s statement followed a decision by the Cole County Circuit Court in Noe v. Parson, a case over transgender procedures, and affirmed the state law that protects kids from “harmful, unnecessary, and high-risk transition drugs and surgeries.”
Bailey worked with Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Hal Frampton who said, “Missouri rightly enacted a law that protects the health and welfare of all children—supporting their natural biological development and ensuring that children experiencing gender dysphoria have support and medical care rooted in biology and science.”
“Driven by ideological agendas, activists and the Biden-Harris administration have pushed these dangerous procedures across the country and are attempting to prevent states from exercising their rightful role to regulate the medical profession and protect kids,” Frampton added.
The decision was made by Wright County judge Craig Carter.
The law passed by the Missouri legislature and signed by the governor in 2023 prevents the state from paying for any transgender procedures for minors and adults both. It also bans the use of puberty blockers on minors as well as gender transition surgeries.
Judge Carter noted that since there is “an almost total lack of consensus as to the medical ethics of adolescent gender dysphoria treatment,” he agreed that the ban was within the state’s power to enact.
“If we don’t let a 16-year-old buy a six pack of beer and a pack of smokes, or let an adult buy those items for them, should we allow the same kid/parent team to decide to change a teenager’s sex forever?” Judge Carter added.
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