Missouri reverses ban on gender-affirming care for minors and adults.

Missouri officials terminated an emergency rule proposed by the Republican attorney general that would have placed limits on transgender care for minors and some adults. The rule would have required adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery. The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit to stop it, arguing that Bailey bypassed the Legislature and did not have the authority to regulate health care through Missouri’s consumer-protection law.