If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri

Via a sweeping emergency rule, the state's Attorney General has made it nearly impossible for trans people in Missouri to receive standard medical treatment.

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@holyramenempire criminalising a persons existence is one step closer to justifying elimination entirely. It’s very terrifying and people should be more upset about this..
@TransitBiker @holyramenempire Someone said it was never about drag queens. When you have people like the Proud Boys descending on a library to protest a drag queen reading *The Mouse Who Ate a Cookie *to 4-year-olds, it's no leap for people, e.g., legislators, school board members, to fire a trans female teacher for wearing a dress and heels. MO isn't a one-off. In TX, the AG asked for driver's license info on trans motorists. The DMV denied his request, but it's still disturbing.