🧵 In response to MO Attorney General Bailey’s latest attack on gender-affirming care, we are having pop-up clinics for new gender-affirming care patients in Springfield (MO), STL, & Fairview Heights, IL, starting Monday, 4/17. Learn more: plannedparenthood.org/planned-parent…. #NoMOTransBans

MO Attorney General Bailey is abusing his power to attack trans Missourians. We sued to stop his sham investigation into our gender-affirming health care program, which serves patients 16 & older.

On Thursday, 4/13, AG Bailey issued an emergency rule that would effectively ban gender-affirming care in MO for adults & young people. We encourage any Missourian interested in starting gender-affirming care to make an appointment before the regulation takes effect on 4/27.

It’s no coincidence that this is happening at the same time as #MoLeg is targeting trans youth. Jeff City politicians are conspiring to dismantle trans rights.

#TransRights & #ReproRights are intertwined — both are foundational to our fundamental rights to control our own bodies, build the families we choose, & live as our authentic selves. These attacks are baseless, ignorant, harmful & transphobic —– full stop.

Here are the facts that AG Bailey is blatantly disregarding:
1️⃣More than two dozen leading medical orgs recognize #GenderAffirmingCare as essential & lifesaving.
2️⃣Gender-affirming hormone therapy includes some meds that are used off-label, which is a common practice in medicine.

3️⃣Like all health care, decisions around gender-affirming care always include informed consent. For young people, decisions are made in partnership with their family & their trusted providers.

4️⃣There is no scientific link between gender dysphoria & developmental disabilities like autism.
We won’t back down from providing trans Missourians with the lifesaving health care they need.

We will continue to share information as we learn more. RT this thread & share the facts about trans health care. #NoMOTransBans #MoLeg #ProtectTransKids #TransRightsAreHumanRights