Planned Parenthood Responds to Attorney General Bailey’s Plan to Regulate Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
For Immediate Release: March 20, 2023 (Updated: March 20, 2023, 12:24 a.m.)
ST. LOUIS — In response to the Missouri Attorney General’s planned emergency regulation, which could effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri (PPSLRSWMO) released the following statement:
Statement from Dr. Colleen McNicholas, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri:
“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s transphobia is an embarrassment to the Show-Me State. The politically driven claims made in the announcement are medically false and harmful. Scientific evidence shows — and the medical community agrees — that gender-affirming care is safe, effective, and life-saving.
“Bailey’s lack of medical expertise shows. His personal moral panic is inappropriately and unlawfully setting harmful policies that will hurt young transgender Missourians and their families. We denounce this government interference in the practice of medicine, and we demand politicians leave health care between providers and their patients. Shame on any politician who uses trans youth for political theatrics.”
PPSLRSWMO provides gender-affirming care. For more information about PPSLRSWMO’s trans care program, click here.