Yall remember how Texas had that "report an abortion" form that they had to take down after a week?

Well, Missouri has one, only it's for reporting transgender concerns.

Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.

KC continues to make me proud.

Simplified explaination: the city gov has refused to comply with any gender affirming care ban, like the one the MO state government is on track to pass.

I will not be surprised if Jeff City tries to nullify or overturn this. Or simply penalize the metro in other ways.

But even if that happens... even if they succeed... the simple fact that this passed by a near-unanimous vote sends a clear message.

It sends a message to non-cis residents that the city is on their side.

And it sends a message to the rest of the nation that resistance is still alive in red states.

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We are kicking off this week by celebrating good news from New Hampshire, Oklahoma, and Missouri! Learn more below.

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For those unaware of what's happening in Missouri: The Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, has enacted an "emergency regulation" placing limitations on gender affirming health care for trans youth and adults requiring 15 one hour therapy sessions over 18 months for puberty blockers, 3 years for hormone therapy, and up to in some cases 9 years of documented therapy for trans gender individuals to receive hormone replacement therapy and other gender affirming treatments. In addition doctors are required to screen trans patients for autism and depression, if diagnosed with either they can be refused gender affirming care. Andrew Bailey enacted this emergency order under the Missouri Merchandising Protections Act, far over reaching the legal scope of the act, due to a claim that a St. Louis transgender clinic was prescribing "experimental drugs to kids without parental consent." These claims are untrue and are currently under investigation. Andrew Bailey's website now has a tip line to report trans affirming health clinics for “reports of questionable gender transition interventions.”

This is what trans genocide looks like in Missouri.

If you would like to fill Adrew Bailey's tip line with complaints about his actions the website is as follows.

hey y'all. how about instead of talking about the fucking wizard game and jk rowling until the heat death of the universe, we talk about real legislative threats on our freedoms that are happening right fucking now.

republicans in my state, missouri, have proposed a bill that would make it illegal for teachers to teach anything about lgbtq issues to students from kindergarten all the way to fucking 12th grade. only licensed mental health professionals, *with parental permission*, can broach the subject to students.

a seperate bill proposes that trans kids be forced to play sports with other kids of their assigned gender at birth, banning any gender affirming care for minors, and criminalizing public drag performances by up to a year in jair and a $2,000 fine.

no doubt adding fuel to the fire, very recently an ex-practitioner at the gender clinic that quite literally saved my life has written a hit piece about washington university's transgender clinic. republicans are calling her a whistleblower. her name is jamie reed, and she describes herself as a queer woman and a progressive, and is apparently married to a trans man. here's an article about that as well, but it is flawed in my opinion (claims with no source that the effects of hrt and puberty blockers are unknown), so read it critically: here.

i cannot stress enough that this clinic saved my life when i was younger. i say that with full sincerity. i've received hrt and top surgery from them and i could not be happier. they connected me to a gender affirming therapist when i desperately needed one. i have friends who transitioned through the same clinic as well, and they are thriving in their gender identities. i suspect that the clinic is going to come under fire soon-- more than it already has. i'm honestly at a loss for what to do here. best i can say is spread the word, be there for your trans friends and family, and donate to the saint louis childrens hospital who saved my life. thank you.

What do you love about trans?

RE: Missouri Trans Ban

As one of our immediate neighbors, we are appalled by the Missouri Attorney General's decision to ban ALL transitioning, including hormone replacement therapy, for transgender Missourians - including adults.

Even though HRT has been documented for decades to be life-saving and the best treatment for gender dysphoria, transgender adults in Missouri will be cut off from transition services beginning April 27th. All current transgender Missouri residents will have to undergo intense screening to continue their care - and will only be allowed to keep their medication routine if they show ZERO signs of mental illness, including depression, anxiety, autism, and "social media addiction." Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is now also enforcing a three-year waiting period, 18-month psychological assessment, and 15 YEAR medical supervision for anyone able to get past the screening process.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1. SHARE THE NEWS AND TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. Many news outlets that aren't explicitly focused on LGBTQIA+ issues have failed to cover how dangerous this decision is, and we know when anti-transgender organizations see something like this get approved in one state, they'll try to replicate it in others and nationally.

https://time.com/.../missouri-restrict-transgender.../

https://www.businessinsider.com/missouri-attorney-general...

2. SUPPORT PROMO, MO ACLU, AND LAMBDA LEGAL. These are the leading advocacy and legal LGBTQIA+ rights organizations that are already working on legal action.

3. SUPPORT C.A.R.E.

Also known as Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity, a Southern Illinois-based collaborative on how to best support and assist incoming transgender refugees fleeing their home states for Illinois.

TRANS AND LIVE IN MISSOURI: RESOURCES

The Attorney General's decision goes into effect April 27th - so you have until then to pick up any prescriptions you have access to. If you are on feminizing HRT, you MAY be able to use this small time window to stockpile your prescriptions until either Bailey's decision is reversed or you are able to find alternate means of getting your medication.

Even AFTER April 27th, you CAN still get your HRT if you are able to cross state lines - Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer informed consent are creating pop-up sites as an emergency response. Some of these clinics even offer telehealth or virtual appointments - although telehealth soon won't be an option for transmasculine HRT due to the DEA's decision to end telehealth prescriptions. Check this map for site locations: https://t.co/O6UBzyS4ue

Lastly, in the event you are unable to find any alternative ways to get HRT through conventional and prescribed means, an HRT DIY wiki has been made as harm reduction: https://diyhrt.wiki/

Missouri was my home, and I can’t go back because I’m trans.

Before the rest, I want to clarify: I do not get my hrt through a Missouri healthcare provider. This will not impact my medical transition, and I am so very lucky to not have to worry about that. Many, many transgender people living in Missouri do not have that luxury. However, I am hurt, and I am scared. I was not intending to move back to Missouri, because I am a lot happier where I am now. However, I’m very scared about the precedent that this sets. Missouri is the first state to pass legislation that restricts access to medical transition not only for minors, but for ADULTS. I would be very surprised if this was where their anti trans legislation stopped. Based on how they seem to be leading the charge against transgender rights in this regard, it seems very likely to me that within the next few years, trans peoples rights to public spaces in Missouri will be legally restricted. If this happens, I will not be able to visit about half of my family members.

The rest of this post is me coming to terms with that.

I flew to my home city, St. Louis Missouri for Pesach recently. I was so excited to spend the holiday with my family. Several members of my family were unable to get off work/school on the actual holiday, so I flew home on Easter weekend and we had our Seder on Easter. This is because in the USA, Easter and Christmas are federal holidays that get automatic off days, unlike Jewish holidays. The Seder happened at my grandma’s house and my entire extended family was invited, as is our family tradition. I had a lovely weekend with my family.

While I was visiting, I stayed in my grandparents house. Growing up I spent nearly every weekend there. My grandparents have always done their best to make me feel at home there. I have countless memories at that house of Shabbat with my grandma, playing games with my cousins and sister, climbing the big tree in the backyard, play dates with friends, doing all sorts of arts and crafts projects with my grandma, teaching myself to use a sewing machine on the living room floor, playing d&d in the basement, and big extended family gatherings for every Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur every year. It is one of the places that makes me feel the safest out of any place on earth. I would consider it my backup home. And as always, our Passover Seder was amazing.

This trip home coincided with my parents selling the house I lived in until I was 18. This has been in the works for a long time, so it did not come as a surprise to me. Even so, both my grandma and grandpa reassured me repeatedly throughout the weekend that I would always have a home at their house. That I could always come back, to visit or stay as long as I need. That this place would always be my home.

One of the things I did while I was staying there was make sure I had copies of all of the family records that my grandma had saved. Things like family trees, Ellis Island immigration records, death certificates, writings of long deceased relatives. I want to preserve as much of our family history as I can, because too much Jewish history has been destroyed by those who hate us. I already knew that my family has lived in the same city in Missouri practically since they immigrated, I think it’s something like 4 generations. Looking through these documents and reading things the previous generation of my family has written was fascinating and deeply moving to me. It cemented in my mind the fact that my family history is completely intertwined with the St. Louis Jewish community.

And of course, the synagogue I belonged to growing up is in Missouri. Where I spent the high holy days, where I was bat mitzvah’d, where I went to hebrew school every week. My Hebrew school teachers. My rabbis. I’ll be visiting it soon for my cousins Bat Mitzvah, and I’m hoping I might get a chance the day after to sit and talk with my rabbis. I feel like I need to say goodbye to them.

I can’t go back to any of these things. It has taken me a long time to write this post because this is so painful for me. I love my family so very dearly, and I have a big family. My cousins were like extra siblings to me growing up, I’m close with all of my second cousins and their partners and kids, my aunts and uncles, my great aunts and uncles, and my great grandparents when they were alive. I don’t go back to St Louis for the city, I go back for them. My grandparents have lived in St. Louis for their entire lives, and they aren’t going to move. Nor do I want them to have to, they’re so happy there. They have carved out a very comfortable and safe place for their family and friends. It’s just not a place I will be welcomed in for much longer, and that is out of our control. They will travel to visit me once in a while, but I know that me not being able to visit Missouri would drastically cut down on the time I can spend with them. And realistically, they are getting old. I don’t know how much longer cross country travel will be safe and feasible for them.

My family took a long time to get on board with my transition, largely because they were lied to by politicians and mental health “professionals” who were unqualified to treat transgender patients. I don’t want to spend too much time talking about that. To me what matters is that they unconditionally support me as a trans man now, and even though they were misinformed and said and did things that hurt me, they have always loved me. And they have made an incredible and effective effort to not only apologize for the harm they caused, but to change the way they treated me in order to express that love. My grandpa, previously the most old fashioned, socially conservative, and transphobic member of my family, will now call me to say things like “the other day this meshuggenah tried to tell me trans people are dangerous, I told him my grandson is transgender and to shut the fuck up. You shoulda seen the look on his face.” My grandma and mom both flew across the country with me to help me prepare for and recover from my top surgery. I could not have asked for better people to care for me post op.

Despite how supportive they are now, it’s only fairly recently that I’ve repaired my relationship with my family enough to enjoy spending long periods of time with them. It is still hard for me to talk to certain family members because I am trans. But the last few trips home have been the first times in a long time I have had a wonderful time with my family, which is something I missed and needed for so long.

I think that is going to be taken away again very soon. And it’s being pushed by the very same people who lied to my family and drove a wedge between us in the first place. This time it is out of our control.

To say I’m heartbroken would be an understatement. It’s hard for me to even conceptualize the concept that my ability to see my family is being slowly taken from me by the Christian zealots in our government. It feels like just now that I’ve been fully accepted and embraced, I’m being forced out again. And once again, it is under the guise of protecting people like me. They expect me to believe that this is for my own good. That all of the bullying and abuse and dysphoria I was forced to endure for my entire childhood was for my own good, because g-d forbid I be transgender and happy.

I had to move across the country to escape unsafe living conditions caused by white Anglo Saxon Christians, and now I’m uncertain of my ability to visit the family members I left behind. Ironically, this is a very Jewish experience. I imagine this is a much smaller version of the pain my ancestors felt when they immigrated to America and left their family behind in Russia and Poland. In a way, this experience connects me to my Jewish heritage in a profoundly painful way.

This was a long and rambly post. I’m just hurting a lot right now, and I needed to talk. Thank you to anyone who read this far.

You, no doubt, have seen that Missouri's AG has put out emergency rules that limit, and in effect ban, transition care in the state, effective April 27

First things first if you are trans in MO, I'm sorry this is happening to you no one else is gonna apologize so I will, I'm really fucking sorry.

two, don't panic, The ACLU and Lambda Legal declared together they're gonna fight this thing. But they need your help

IF YOU ARE TRANS IN MISSOURI! PLEASE CONTACT THE ACLU OR LAMBDA AT ONCE! THEY NEED YOUR STORY!

If you would be effected by these rules they need to hear from you AT ONCE, your story and how these rules will negatively impact your life will make up the basis of challenging (and overturning) these rules before they can take effect.

other groups to engage with on this, PRMO-Missouri, The National Center for Transgender Equality, HRC and of course PFLAG

Finally next year Attorney General Andrew Bailey will be up for election. Don't forget this, don't forgive this, stay fucking angry and bring your rage every day from today till you grind his transphobic ass into the dirt, EVERY DAY!

moments like this are scary, and they are painful, but they are calls to action. You may feel that it isn't fair, and it is not, but you are called to action to fight for your rights and the rights of others so in the future others will not have to. Do not stop do not give up, the arc of history is long but it does bend toward justice.

HEY YALL <3 as a Certified Trans Missourian I need your help! Can you tell this dude (Andrew Bailey) to do something useful instead of eliminating gender-affirming healthcare?

Sign a petition?

Call the attorney general’s office?

Contact your elected officials?

Donate to local trans support organizations MTUG, QTPOC, and/or SQSH?

image id: a cutesy cartoon drawing of an anvil sitting on Andrew Bailey’s head that says “fuck this dude.” An office building with silly proportions labeled “corporate interest” and a scroll and gavel labeled “legal support” sit on the outer sides of the anvil. In the middle of the anvil a blue puppy, pink bunny, and white cat hold a cake labeled “community support” and a baseball bat with nails driven through it labeled “rage.” A heart labeled “Trans love” floats between the three animals. Balancing on their heads, a rainbow of smaller cute animals hold hands and have icons above their heads depicting an envelope, a phone, american money, a trans flag, and a lightbulb. Hearts and stars float around the animals, and arrows reading “protest” and “call text write & call again” point down at Andrew Bailey’s dumbass face.

the magazine 'U.S. Catholic' has an article in their June edition about viewing god through a nonbinary lens and includes a whole page about how god loves trans people and created them to be trans and specifically calls for good Catholics to oppose anti trans legislation

IF YOU LIVE IN MISSOURI AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM READ THIS POST

If you are like me and you are a trans student in the Missouri school system, or if you are an educator or anyone of power, LISTEN UP. This new bill (house bill 2885) will put teachers on a SEK OFFENDER LIST for something as simple as CALLING A STUDENT BY THEIR CHOSEN NAME AND PRONOUNS.

I hope I don't need to explain how fucked up this is.

PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME TO SHARE THIS NEWS OR EMAIL MISSOURI SENATOR JAMIE GRAGG, WHO IS THE ONE WHO PROPOSED THE BILL. IF THIS GOES THROUGH, SO MANY KIDS WILL BE AFFECTED!

please.