The site explained that it is most dangerous for folks who have had gender-affirming surgery to stop hormones. For this group, stopping medication can lead to heart complications, metabolic dysfunction, severe bone density loss, cognitive decline, and mood instability.
“For post-operative trans people who have undergone gender-affirming surgery and no longer have their original gonads, withdrawing hormones is not an option, it’s a medical crisis,” GenderGP wrote, adding that banning these hormones “isn’t a political statement, it’s medical malpractice.”
The sponsor of the bill to ban gender-affirming care, state Rep. Dirk Deaton (R), said in March that he decided to add the anti-trans provision to the bill because there have been a lot of new appointments to the court and “a lot of change… in the national conversation around this issue.”
Missouri is a shithole state. Though, technically speaking, this might arise to the level of cruel and unusual for the already-transitioned inmates for the same reason that denying medical care to regular people is cruel and unusual. Wonder how long until we just declare transgender people as illegal to force them to die. Its probably what all the bathroom bills and ID stuff is all about
this might arise to the level of cruel and unusual
They'll just say it's not unusual because everybody is being forced to not be trans. If everybody is subject to the cruelty then it's not unusual, as shown by all the other horrendous things the US prison system has done to people. The courts have decided that a punishment must be BOTH cruel AND unusual otherwise it's perfectly fine to torture people with.
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