Planned Parenthood Responds to Attorney General Bailey’s Transphobic Rule to Ban Gender-Affirming Care
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2023 (Updated: April 14, 2023, 8:54 p.m.)
ST. LOUIS — In response to the Missouri Attorney General’s emergency regulation, which attempts to effectively ban gender-affirming care in Missouri, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri (PPSLRSWMO) released the following statement announcing an expansion of care:
Statement from Dr. Colleen McNicholas, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri:
“Yet again, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is putting his transphobic, extreme ideology before evidence-based medicine and care. Bailey’s political agenda is not welcome in my exam room.
“We are increasing our capacity to welcome as many new gender-affirming care patients as possible before this disastrous rule takes effect on April 27 — in addition to the more than 1,000 patients we already see for this life-saving care. To the transgender and non-binary patients seeking care: our doors remain open. Despite the Attorney General’s continued attacks on gender-affirming care, Planned Parenthood will always do all we can to ensure our patients can get the care they need.”
Planned Parenthood is offering additional appointments and pop-up clinics, to new gender-affirming care patients beginning on Monday, April 17, at several locations, including in Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri, and in Fairview Heights, Illinois. For more information, or to schedule an appointment, visit TRANSforming Community, TRANSforming Care website or call 314-531-7526.
On March 31, 2023, PPSLRSWMO filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis against Attorney General Andrew Bailey, seeking to end his sham and unlawful investigation into PPSLRSWMO’s gender-affirming health care program.
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Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri has been the leading provider, educator and protector of reproductive health care in St. Louis and Southwest Missouri for over 90 years. Patients can make appointments online or by phone at 1-800-230-PLAN(7526).