Posted on May 12, 2023
Kansas City declares itself a 'safe haven' for gender-affirming health care as Missouri restricts...
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Just a day after the Missouri legislature approved a ban on gender-affirming care, Kansas City passed a policy offering safe haven to the transgender community.
The Kansas City Council on Thursday voted 11-1 to pass a resolution that declares the city a safe haven for gender-affirming care and adopts an official policy on gender-affirming care. The policy now stands in defiance of recent Missouri actions to restrict the rights of transgender people and their ability to access the healthcare they need.
On Wednesday, the Missouri legislature passed bills banning gender-affirming care — like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender transition surgery — for kids under 18. The legislature also passed a bill banning transgender athletes from playing on the sports team that aligns with their gender identity, up to the collegiate level.
The state bills now head to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk. He is expected to sign them into law.
The Kansas City Council on Thursday voted 11-1 to pass a resolution that declares the city a safe haven for gender-affirming care and adopts an official policy on gender-affirming care. The policy now stands in defiance of recent Missouri actions to restrict the rights of transgender people and their ability to access the healthcare they need.
On Wednesday, the Missouri legislature passed bills banning gender-affirming care — like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender transition surgery — for kids under 18. The legislature also passed a bill banning transgender athletes from playing on the sports team that aligns with their gender identity, up to the collegiate level.
The state bills now head to Gov. Mike Parson’s desk. He is expected to sign them into law.
Kansas City declares itself a 'safe haven' for gender-affirming health care as Missouri restricts...
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MSgt Dale Johnson
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As an Adult if you want o chop off body parts and such more power to you, but I m against letting kids, under 18, do anything that could make a permanent change. There is not enough information about what those drugs can do long term for them to be declared safe.
--- But circumcision is ok to do to newborns who can't consent...or how about the parents who have an intersex kid and they choose what gender they "think" the kid should be and then have surgery done to them?
Also gender affirming care on minors does NOT include surgery. It's letting them use the name they want, get their hair cut or grow it out, wear the clothes they want and at most, puberty blockers. WHICH cisgender kids have been using for YEARS who have preocious puberty.
Posted 7 h ago
As an Adult if you want o chop off body parts and such more power to you, but I m against letting kids, under 18, do anything that could make a permanent change. There is not enough information about what those drugs can do long term for them to be declared safe.
--- But circumcision is ok to do to newborns who can't consent...or how about the parents who have an intersex kid and they choose what gender they "think" the kid should be and then have surgery done to them?
Also gender affirming care on minors does NOT include surgery. It's letting them use the name they want, get their hair cut or grow it out, wear the clothes they want and at most, puberty blockers. WHICH cisgender kids have been using for YEARS who have preocious puberty.
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