{"id":95971,"date":"2023-09-13T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95971"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:05:39","slug":"95971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95971","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Observation O’ The Day
\nProviders are moving very quickly from denying they ever did these kinds of things to sounding resentful that they\u2019re no longer allowed to.<\/em>
\n-Stephen Green<\/p>\n

St Louis Children\u2019s Hospital will no longer perform sex changes on minors.<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington University Transgender Center at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital<\/a>\u00a0will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition, as a result of a\u00a0new law<\/a>\u00a0in Missouri.<\/p>\n

In a letter to staff obtained by The Post Millennial, Dr. David H Perlmutter, the executive vice chancellor for medical affairs of Washington University\u2019s School of Medicine told staff at the center that following a review, \u201cWe have now reached a point where we can no longer continue to operate the center in the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He specifically cited \u201cMissouri’s newly enacted law regarding transgender care\u201d that has \u201ccreated a new legal claim for patients who receive these medications as minors. This legal claim creates unsustainable liability for healthcare professionals and makes it untenable for us to continue to provide comprehensive transgender care for minor patients without subjecting the university and our providers to an unacceptable level of liability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this reason, we have made the difficult decision to no longer allow Washington University physicians to prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pearlmutter did note that the transgender center \u201c\u2026will continue to offer other services including education and mental health support for all patients and medical care for patients over the age of 18.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled Missouri legislature passed two bills, one which\u00a0banned sex changes<\/a>\u00a0for minors\u00a0and prohibited biological men from competing in women’s sports.<\/p>\n

The legislation was signed into law by Republican Gov. Mike Parson and bans giving minors puberty blockers, hormones, and sex change surgery. It also blocks prisoners and inmates from receiving surgical sex changes. Additionally, the bill prevents Medicaid from covering the cost of these surgeries in the entire state.<\/p>\n

In April, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey\u00a0signed an emergency order<\/a>\u00a0placing restrictions on\u00a0experimental sex changes<\/a>\u00a0following an\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the\u00a0whistleblower accusations<\/a>\u00a0of malpractice at the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Observation O’ The Day Providers are moving very quickly from denying they ever did these kinds of things to sounding resentful that they\u2019re no longer allowed to. -Stephen Green St Louis Children\u2019s Hospital will no longer perform sex changes on minors. The\u00a0Washington University Transgender Center at Saint Louis Children’s Hospital\u00a0will no longer prescribe puberty blockers … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,41,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-medicine","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95972,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971\/revisions\/95972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}