JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The GOP-controlled Missouri Senate early on Tuesday advanced a pair of bills that would ban most gender-affirming care for minors and bar transgender people from competing in women’s sports.
The first bill, filed by state Sen. Mike Moon, an Ash Grove Republican, would ban all “gender transition procedures” for people under 18. However, a new version of the bill, which passed 27-9, would allow minors to continue hormone therapy or puberty blockers if they were already prescribed them.
The other bill, filed by state Sen. Holly Thompson Rehder, a Sikeston Republican, would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports, including at private schools and colleges. Rehder’s legislation passed on a voice vote.
