Missouri is considering legislation to ban trans medical treatments for minors, and lawmakers and one psychologist who testified at a hearing last week suggested forcing even legal adults to wait until they're 25 years old.
The Hill took note of that suggestion from a Thursday hearing for H.B. 2649, but to be clear, the bill as it stands would not prohibit trans adults from getting any form of medical treatment or therapy. Much like similar bills passed in Alabama and Arkansas, it prohibits any sort of "gender transition procedures" being offered to anybody under the age of 18, with exceptions for those with verified genetic disorders and an exception for treatment for "any infection, injury, disease, or disorder that has been caused by or exacerbated by the performance of gender transition procedures."
