Judge blocks Missouri transgender care restrictions hours before they were set to take effect
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The Kansas City Star
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Monday blocked Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s sweeping restrictions on transgender care just hours before they were set to take effect. The temporary restraining order, issued by St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Ellen H. Ribaudo, allows Missourians to continue accessing gender-affirming care until at least May 15. Ribaudo, appointed by former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon in 2015, wrote in an order that the plaintiffs in the case, which include two teenage transgender girls, were “at high risk of having their medical care interrupted for an …
