Missouri governor threatens to call special session to ban gender-affirming care

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With only two weeks left before lawmakers adjourn for the year, Gov. Mike Parson is threatening to keep Missouri’s general assembly in Jefferson City if they don’t pass bills banning gender-affirming care for minors and placing restrictions on transgender athletes.

Parson told KCMO Talk Radio’s Pete Mundo on Tuesday, and reiterated to reporters and Thursday, that he will call a special session if the legislation doesn’t reach his desk before the May 12 adjournment.

“We’re going to address that issue before this year is out,” Parson told Mundo. “If they don’t get those two bills across the finish line by the end of the session, then we’re going to stay right there until we address those issues.”

Both the Senate and House have passed their versions of the legislation, but neither body has yet to debate the other’s bills on transgender athletes or gender-affirming care with two weeks left in the legislative session.

Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, told reporters Thursday that the Senate has completed its work on the issue.





https://missouriindependent.com/2023/04/27/missouri-governor-threatens-to-call-special-session-to-ban-gender-affirming-care/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Legislation so that legislators don't have to question their own version of reality

[NullTuples]

2. Why even bother to vote? Just declare it done & let them go home. /sarc

The goal is to ruin or end trans kids' lives because the GOP bet the house on that being their winning issue for 2024.

And, if you notice, everyone in the media is distracted from that pesky abortion problem.