The Missouri GOP is successfully protecting children from ‘gender-affirming care’
Zachary Faria
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In a win for both children and sanity in Missouri, Washington University in St. Louis will stop prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children, proving that Republican action on this issue gets real results to protect children from permanent sex changes.
The university’s Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital made this decision in response to a new Missouri law, which banned doctors from permanently disfiguring gender-confused children starting on Aug. 28. While children who had already been receiving these irreversible “treatments” were grandfathered in through the law, it also established that children who were pushed into irreversible sex changes could sue within 15 years of turning 21, with a minimum liability of $500,000.
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That liability is what forced the university to back down from its anti-science, activist-driven process, with officials claiming that “unsustainable liability for health care professionals” makes it “untenable for us to continue to provide comprehensive transgender care for minor patients without subjecting the university and our providers to an unacceptable level of liability.”
This is great news, and not just because pushing children into permanent sex changes is reckless and unethical on its own. The university’s transgender clinic, according to a whistleblower, was pushing children into these damaging, irreversible procedures after just one or two visits with therapists, with no regard for children with mental health issues including schizophrenia, PTSD, and bipolar disorder, among others.
Then again, this is most certainly par for the course for the field of “gender-affirming care,” which is based not on science or medicine but on activist drivel about how permanently disfiguring children is a necessity if they express even the slightest confusion about gender. As David Freddoso wrote about the clinic and transgender medicine as a whole back in February, “This is a branch of medicine, if you can even call it that, in which there are no ethics, there are no rules, and there is no genuine concern for minor patients’ well-being.”
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All that matters to the doctors involved is what activists say they should do to children and how much money pumping those children full of hormones and preparing them for sex change surgeries brings in.
The clinic discontinuing these procedures is proof that Republican legislators and governors can and must use their positions to protect children from the damage of the transgender medical movement. It is a reminder that the party has no place for Republicans, like presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who refuse to protect children from these abuses. Missouri has saved hundreds of children from permanent disfigurement at the hands of ideological doctors, and all elected Republicans should take note of it.