Ruling upholding Missouri transgender care ban had ‘factual errors,’ attorneys argue

Ruling upholding Missouri transgender care ban had ‘factual errors,’ attorneys argue

The Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent).Attorneys representing transgender minors, their loved ones and physicians who provide gender-affirming care say a circuit court judge’s decision to uphold the state’s gender-affirming-care restrictions was “permeated by legal and factual errors.” In oral arguments in the Missouri Supreme Court Wednesday morning, Lambda Legal attorney Nora Huppert said …

Missouri Families Urge State Supreme Court to Block Ban on

Jefferson City, Mo. - Legal advocates urged the Missouri Supreme Court today to reverse a circuit court ruling upholding enforcement of Senate Bill 49, Missouri’s discriminatory law that bars transgender adolescents from receiving gender-affirming medical care and prohibits Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming medical care for transgender people of any age. The law penalizes health care professionals who provide such care to minors with the lo…