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Missouri lawmakers decided it was vital to protect vulnerable and impressionable children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery and passed the Save Children From Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
Children do not have the capacity to decide to risk permanent damage to their bodies — especially confused and peer-pressured children.
A parent of a child pretending to be the opposite sex filed a lawsuit claiming that the law to protect children discriminates against her child. A circuit court disagreed.
In ruling against the plaintiff, the court contended that there is a lack of consensus as to whether drug or surgical treatment of gender dysphoria is ethical. States have an interest in protecting the integrity and ethics of the medical profession, the court said.
The court deferred to the legislature, and the SAFE Act will stand.
“The Court has left Missouri’s law banning child mutilation in place, a resounding victory for our children,” said Andrew Bailey, Missouri’s attorney general. “We are the first state in the nation to successfully defend such a law at the trial court level. I’m extremely proud of the thousands of hours my office put in to shine a light on the lack of evidence supporting these irreversible procedures. We will never stop fighting to ensure Missouri is the safest state in the nation for children.”
