St. Louis mayor signs executive order seeking to shield trans youth from new state laws

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Thursday signed an executive order seeking to insulate transgender Missourians from bills passed by the state legislature restricting access to certain medical procedures for minors and limiting participation in school sports.

“The responsibility now falls to local governments to take tangible steps to respond to this state intrusion into private family medical decisions and minors’ bodily privacy,” she wrote in a letter to the city’s legislative delegation earlier in the day notifying them of her planned order.

Missouri lawmakers passed bills earlier this month banning minors from beginning gender-affirming hormones or puberty blockers for four years, starting in August, and restricting transgender athletes to competing on teams as their birth sex. Both bills await action by Gov. Mike Parson, who has indicated he intends to sign them into law.

Jones’ order calls the bills “an abhorrent intrusion into personal freedom and liberty.”

https://missouriindependent.com/2023/05/25/st-louis-mayor-signs-executive-order-seeking-to-shield-trans-youth-from-new-state-laws/

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St. Louis mayor signs executive order seeking to shield trans youth from new state laws (Original post)	RandySF	Friday	OP
Good for our Mayor. The unfortunate thing is that the state of MO will still try and step in, and	SWBTATTReg	Friday	#1
Good for you, Madam Mayor.	niyad	Friday	#2
States rejecting Federal oversight can expect cities to reject State oversight	sanatanadharma	Friday	#3
I don't really like to see the sports participation aspect lumped in with the medical aspect	Hugh_Lebowski	Friday	#4

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Fri May 26, 2023, 05:17 AM

SWBTATTReg (19,857 posts)

1. Good for our Mayor. The unfortunate thing is that the state of MO will still try and step in, and

do its nasty stuff still. I hope other entities step up to the plate, and stop this ridiculous picking on of a tiny tiny percentage of a population, who for various reasons, proceed w/ such operations, (e.g., born that way) or other life-threatening conditions, none of which are other people's business.

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Fri May 26, 2023, 05:22 AM

niyad (101,258 posts)

2. Good for you, Madam Mayor.

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Fri May 26, 2023, 07:31 AM

sanatanadharma (2,991 posts)

3. States rejecting Federal oversight can expect cities to reject State oversight

The red-states are creating precedence for ignoring governments.

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Fri May 26, 2023, 09:45 AM

Hugh_Lebowski (31,904 posts)

4. I don't really like to see the sports participation aspect lumped in with the medical aspect

The medical aspect is nobodies business but that of the kid, their parents and their doctors. It's clearly personal and impacts nobody else.

The sports issue, OTOH, can affect others whether we like to admit it or not. Reasonable people can disagree on the proper course of action when it comes to this subject.

Saying that trans youth must participate in the sports based on birth sex is much less appalling (with far fewer permanent consequences) to me than forcing a person to go through the puberty of the wrong sex. They're just worlds apart in my mind. Sports are ... sports. They don't REALLY matter.

Whereas life-long health is something else entirely.

I'm not convinced the two topics really belong in the same conversation, and certainly not in the same 'law'.

If we're going to pick a proverbial hill to die on, medical care is the one to choose. Fact is, the other side uses sports and bathrooms/locker rooms as a cudgel, and it's working for them. Let's get these kids the care they need first, then work on the broader societal changes we'd like to see.

MHO fwiw

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