A Missouri judge has upheld the state’s law that bans transgender procedures for children.
In a ruling handed down on Monday, Judge R. Craig Carter of the Circuit Court of Cole County, Missouri, said the challenge failed to substantiate multiple arguments, including that there exists a medical consensus on whether using drugs and surgeries to treat adolescent gender dysphoria is ethical.
“Regarding the ethics of adolescent gender-affirming treatment, it would seem that the medical profession stands in the middle of an ethical minefield, with scant evidence to lead it out,” Carter wrote.
“States do have abiding interest in protecting the integrity and ethics of the medical profession.”…