Wed Sep 13, 2023 – 2:59 pm EDT
ST. LOUIS, Missouri (LifeSiteNews) — Physicians at Washington University’s Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital are ceasing to dole out harmful puberty blockers and sterilizing cross-sex hormones after the state’s Republican governor signed a bill banning the drugs for children.
In a Monday statement, the university said it was “disheartened to have to take this step” but announced that its doctors “will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition” due to “Missouri’s newly enacted law regarding transgender care [sic].”
SB 49, also known as the “Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act,” was signed into law June 7 by Republican Gov. Mike Parson. The law effectively prohibits all medical intervention for gender-confused minors – including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries – and bans the use of state funds to support so-called “gender transitions” and taxpayer-funded “transitions” in state prisons.
“We support everyone’s right to his or her own pursuit of happiness; however, we must protect children from making life-altering decisions that they could come to regret in adulthood once they have physically and emotionally matured,” Gov. Parson said.
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