We intend to stop the Missouri Attorney General from banning trans youth AND adults rights to access their medical care.

This is call to action for anyone in the state of Missouri to make their voice heard, and tell Andrew Bailey we will not allow his bigotry in our home state.

Today, Missouri AG has passed an emergency ruling effectively outlawing all medical gender transition methods in the state.

They will require 3 years of documentation of dysphoria, 18+ months of therapy, and people with autism or depression are not allowed to even start this process.

This is a direct attack on the queer community, and exactly what we are fighting against at Human Rights Collective, Unity Is Power, We Are The People, and Empire 13!

Trans people are more likely to be affected by depression due to dysphoria, and societal standards put upon them!

It has been proven that “Transgender individuals not on CHT had a nearly four-fold increased risk of probable depressive disorder, compared to controls. Older age, lower self-esteem, poorer interpersonal function and less social support predicted depressive disorder. Use of CHT was associated with less depression.“ -National Library of Medicine

There’s also been medical studies proving high correlation between Gender Non Conformity and Autism! “ In sum, the current study successfully reproduced (a) the link between autistic traits and current gender dysphoric feelings/recalled cross-gender behaviour and (b) the relation between mentalising and current gender dysphoric feelings, reported by Kallitsounaki and Williams (2020). Most importantly, we found for the first time that the relation between autistic traits and gender dysphoric feelings was to a significant degree explained by mentalising ability. Although direct replication by other laboratories awaits, the main implication of these findings is that mentalising ability could be one of the underling neurocognitive mechanisms that explain the increased prevalence of gender nonconformity in people with a diagnosis of ASD.” -National Library Of Medicine

It is clear that the Republicans of this state have specifically targeted the majority of Missouri’s trans population in this attack.

Sign your name to show that you will not agree to this ever becoming a law in our state, and share your feelings on why!

This petition will hopefully be shared with the ACLU to use in testimony!