The bill's sponsor said people who are convicted of crimes don't deserve gender-affirming care.

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 ®, 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.

      • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
        5·
        1 day ago

        They lie and cheat to keep us down. Just look at gerrymandering. We made a rule against it and they tricked voters into overturning it before it went into effect.

        I don’t know if I’m in district 5 or 6 anymore. I checked on the states website and they didn’t know either. It’s a nightmare.

        • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          5·
          21 hours ago

          I checked on the states website and they didn’t know either. It’s a nightmare intentionally malicious.

          FTFY

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    Missouri is the state.

    Fucking nazi atrocity. We need our own Nuremburg trials for this shit.

  • Arrandee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    As a transfemme Missourian, this is ever so reassuring.

    Reassuring in the sense that if I chose to commit a crime, I know for certain I would fully commit to the enterprise of doing harm to my enemy, since imprisonment would be a death sentence anyway.

  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    A huge issue with this, besides being cruel, is that about 60-70% of the non-federal jail population are just awaiting trial and may actually be innocent. This gives cops more incentive to just arrest those that they don’t like if they can’t afford to post bail.

    This needs to go to a higher court immediately. I just hope they do the right thing…

      • Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        I know what they did and what they stand for isnt funny at all, but I just zoomed in on these bargain Nazis and just can’t help but laugh. Picturing them all waddling into home depot or Lowes to the garden section in their little khakis / white shirt uniform to get tiki torches… Marching to the scent of citronella just mad because something something jews and brown people???

        • tpyo@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          Can you clue me in to who these people are? I kinda thought it was a movie still but your comment made me second guess

        • GraniteM@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          I could believe that little tetrahedron symbol on his polo is some cryptofascist bullshit symbol that he had embroidered on at a mall kiosk because he’s too chickenshit to actually own his bigotry and wear a Hakenkreuz…

          …but I could also believe that there’s some athleisure company out there with that logo where when that photo went viral saw it suddenly appear everywhere and just went Fffffuuuuuucckk mmmmeeeeeee…"

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    71·
    2 days ago

    “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,”

    Can someone please explain to me what happens to the body in this case?

    • it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems
      3·
      21 hours ago

      From what I understand, biological systems regulated by sex hormones require one or the other to work at all. For example, you get one pattern of post-puberty bone growth with estrogen, a different pattern with testosterone, and no bone growth at all if you have neither. These systems also have some counterbalancing factor, like your bones constantly being slowly dissolved to keep calcium in your bloodstream, so if you have no gonads and no supplementary hormones, you essentially speedrun osteoporosis over the course of a few years.

      I’m not too clear on other effects, but a lot of things are downstream of “your bones slowly melt,” and lots of other parts of your body rely on sex hormones to regulate them and will have long-term issues without them.

        • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Basically. But, the life span used to be shorter. Also, eunuchs didn’t subject themselves to much that could subject them to harm: they were mostly present as servants to eich/royal harems/wives of polygamy, or they were apart of the priesthood. But, their life expectancy was low, even for the time.

    • Archelon@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 day ago

      “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.”

      —The previous paragraph.

        • Snowies@lemmy.zip
          5·
          1 day ago

          It’s not about science or saving money or protecting inmates or women.

          It never ever was.

          It’s about hurting people they don’t like. To them, the government is either a red carpet or a cudgel.

    • luciferofastora@feddit.org
      4·
      2 days ago

      I vaguely remember that some hormones are relevant for bone integrity. I imagine losing that would be all around awful.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      This has been happening for years in red states, you just weren’t paying attention. Access to HRT in prison in a red state has always been a shitshow at best, and it’s been decades of back and forth lawsuits and new laws trying to get around the last lawsuit.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        121·
        2 days ago

        You just said what OP did with more words. As you pointed out, red states are the ones implementing the policies. Perhaps Democrats wouldn’t be passing legislation to make it better, but they wouldn’t be passing this trash.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          61·
          2 days ago

          Since there was no reasonable chance of Missouri going blue during the last election, I interpreted the comment as being about national level rather than state level politics.

  • kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Wow, 1st you can beat your pregnant wife with no consequences and now this…what a “lovely” place…