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Missouri’s AG Pulls the Plug on Transgender Healthcare Restrictions

May 17, 2023 6:48AM CDT
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Missouri’s AG Pulls the Plug on Transgender Healthcare Restrictions
Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey speaks to reporters after taking the oath of office in Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 3, 2023. A Kansas City Council committee will consider a resolution on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, that would designate the city as a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care, even as the state’s attorney general is proposing a new restrictions on the procedures for adults and children. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)

(Missourinet) Missouri’s attorney general has pulled the plug on his transgender health care restrictions.

The Missouri Secretary of State’s website says Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rules have been terminated. Bailey, a Republican, submitted the limits on hormone therapy and gender transitions for children and adults, unless certain conditions are met. The rules triggered the ACLU of Missouri and Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ legal organization, to file a lawsuit seeking to block the implementation of the restrictions. The attorney general’s move comes less than one week after the Missouri Legislature passed transgender health care limits for people under 18.

A statement from AG Bailey says, “We were standing in the gap unless and until the General Assembly decided to take action on this issue. The General Assembly has now filled that gap with a statute.”