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2. The biggest problem with Republican State Legislatures

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:47 PM

Jun 2023

is that they 'believe' they know what is good for everybody regardless of facts or what medical experts in the field have to say.

"What we're doing is protecting children from undergoing what we determine, we believe, is harmful procedures," GOP Rep. Dean Plocher said at the end of the legislative session in May.

Though research shows it's rare for children to undergo gender-affirming surgeries, the state senator who filed the bill, Mike Moon, has said he wants to stop "the mutilation and butchering of children's bodies in Missouri."

It's like the blind leading the blind.

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They sound like such a lovely family. ShazzieB Jun 2023 #1

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