Gender Affirming Care

In a decision released Monday, a Missouri judge ruled the law did not violate the state constitution, saying there is lack of consensus on whether gender-affirming care for minors is appropriate and safe.

The trial comes after transgender minors, their families and health-care providers challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 law restricting physicians from prescribing gender-affirming medical care to minors.

The former caseworker shared hundreds of pages of documents containing details of patient care with Missouri Attorney General’s Office.

Transgender adolescents say a state law barring them from beginning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has caused them harm and should be blocked.

The Missouri senator rallied against Amendment 3 at an event held by the First Baptist Church in Ozark.

Planned Parenthood officials in Missouri say they will not give Attorney General Andrew Bailey the records of its young transgender patients.

Missouri’s attorney general went looking for complaints about trans care. He got something else.

Missouri is one of 19 states that has banned gender-affirming care for minors. The state has proven to be ripe for laws limiting transgender rights, which are often engineered by a network of out-of-state conservative advocacy groups.

Does gender dysphoria count as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act? The question lies at the center of a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri earlier this month.

A school board member proposed a policy to require students to use bathrooms based on their sex assigned at birth.