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Missouri’s Republican attorney general on Monday announced plans to file an emergency rule requiring an 18-month waiting period, among other limitations, for those seeking gender-affirming care for minors.
In filing an emergency rule, Andrew Bailey sidesteps the GOP-led state senate as it struggles to pass a law banning the practice for children completely – and the hundreds of activists rallying at the state capitol on Monday night to pressure lawmakers to act on the bill.
The rule comes amid a national push to restrict transgender healthcare.
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The rule will require an 18-month waiting period, 15 hour-long therapy sessions and treatment of any mental illnesses before Missouri doctors can provide gender-affirming care to transgender children.
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The Missouri LGBTQ+ rights group Promo called Bailey’s rule an abuse of power and said his office “does not respect the professional guidelines of every major medical association in our country, who agrees gender-affirming healthcare is the standard of care for transgender Missourians”.
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While the rule appears to be aimed at helping children who might regret transitioning, “it does so at the expense of those children who would indeed benefit from transition services,” said Dr Jack Drescher, section editor of the gender dysphoria chapter of the DSM-5, the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s mental illness manual.
Putin and Xi head into second day of talks in Moscow
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are to hold a second day of talks in Moscow on Tuesday, as the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida, heads to Kyiv to meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Putin and Xi spent were in talks for four and a half hours on Monday, in which they referred to each other as “dear friend” and, in a rare move, Putin escorted Xi to his car. Putin…
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