St. Louis mayor enacts executive order to ‘fight to protect our trans community’
Jenny Goldsberry
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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed an executive order on Thursday promoting healthcare for transgender patients.
Jones signed the executive order to show the city’s “fight to protect our trans community,” per a press release. The mayor acknowledged that the state capital was enacting “overwhelming attacks” on the same community she was trying to protect as a reference to the recently passed law that bans puberty blockers for minors.
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“In St. Louis, everyone deserves to thrive, regardless of their gender identity or expression,” Jones said in a statement. “I’ve heard from trans youth and their families who feel like hateful attacks from Jefferson City Republicans will force them to leave our state. This order sends the message that St. Louis will fight to protect our trans community in the face of bigotry.”
The executive order promises to support transgender athletes competing at recreation centers, disallow any sports program from asking about an athlete’s gender, provide all-gender bathrooms in its centers, and commit to organizing a summit on gender-transition care in the future, among other things.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone drugs for children will go into effect on Aug. 28 and does not expire until the same date in 2027. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, dropped a similar order restricting doctors from prescribing cross-sex hormones, hormone treatments, and genital surgeries for both children and adults in the wake of the ban from the Missouri General Assembly.
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“Children deserve evidence-based care, not irreversible interventions already rejected by health authorities in many countries,” Bailey tweeted.
Bailey is now pursuing regulations for “dangerous experimental procedures,” including “genital mutilation and castration” even for adults identifying as transgender.