By Annelise Hanshaw
https://missouriindependent.com/author/ahanshaw/
“No one thinks about how these laws affect the actual people they are supposed to protect and they are supposed to serve,” she said.
>Patients were crying in the clinic in fear, she testified.
“I’m trying to give them hope that they don’t have to fear being in Missouri, that they don’t have to fear coming to me as a provider, that they can move past this,” Carr said. “It’s sad because I’m referring a lot of people to therapy that, before these rules, were fine.”
She worries about youth in foster care, which she worked with frequently in a previous position. Transgender teenagers in foster care often must wait until they turn 18 to go to the doctor alone for assessment to obtain hormone-replacement therapy.
But if they are on Medicaid, as most are soon after foster care, Missouri won’t pay for the treatment.
https://missouriindependent.com/2024/09/27/patients-hurt-by-missouris-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-providers-testify/