More deets on medical drama not only offers sketchy associations about "bodily autonomy" for youngsters but also draws a tense analogy with the abortion debate for grown women.
Here's the argument put forward by our 2nd favorite prog blog . . .
Patients, parents and activists say they feel like the statute of limitations provision of the law undermines the compromise worked out this year in the Missouri Senate — that ended Democrats’ filibuster and opened the door for the bill’s passage — to allow transgender minors who were already receiving gender-affirming treatment to continue.
Most say they never saw it coming, assuming that while the new law would bar new patients from getting care, it wouldn’t upend treatments for those already grandfathered in. And some say the provision is reminiscent of laws that for years have targeted access to abortion.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
As Missouri providers halt transgender care for minors, some feel duped by legislative deal * Missouri Independent
Doctors, activists and transgender Missourians are worried a provision in the gender-affirming-care law will ban care for all minors.
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