Missouri's attorney general opened a new front in the GOP's attacks on transgender people

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Missouri's attorney general opened a new front in the GOP's attacks on transgender people: banning treatment for any adult with depression

Missouri's attorney general announced new requirements for adults seeking gender affirming care.

Adults with depression are banned from seeking care until their mental health issues are resolved.

Other requirements include three consecutive years of gender dysphoria and months of therapy.

An emergency regulation announced by Missouri's attorney general on Thursday could severely limit access to gender-affirming care in the state, setting several new requirements for trans adults seeking treatment.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey's sweeping regulation would prohibit medical providers from providing gender-affirming care unless a number of requirements are met. While some of the regulation's requirements are specified by age group, its most expansive provisions, including a potential three-year delay in care, would be in place regardless of the patient's age.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/missouri-s-attorney-general-opened-a-new-front-in-the-gop-s-attacks-on-transgender-people-banning-treatment-for-any-adult-with-depression/ar-AA19Pyoa

[LostOne4Ever]

1. This is the most barbaric attack yet

the next step into an outright genocide!!!

[Irish_Dem]

2. So you cannot give gender affirming care if a person is depressed?

What if the lack of gender affirming care is causing the depression?

[LostOne4Ever]

3. Catch 22

If you have depression you aren’t really dysphoric. If you are dysphoric you should have depression or else it isn’t the “ 3 years of severe, persistent gender dysphoria to obtain care.”

[Matthew28]

4. This is why

A lot of us will go DIY and use the gray market for our hormones. Fuck the republicans!

[Irish_Dem]

6. I'm glad I am retired now and no longer in clinical practice.

I don't know how a therapist can follow the law and
still be in compliance with the other laws and ethics governing psychology practice.

And being told not to do what you are trained to do.

[Initech]

5. They should just put on the SS uniforms and get it over with already.

[niyad]

7. May he experience every single moment of the pain and injury he is causing.