🤬#Missouri judge ruled ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect Mon…means next wk health care providers prohib from providing gender-affirming surgeries to children. Minors who began puberty blockers or hormones before Mon will be allowed to cont. meds, but other minors won’t have access to drugs.
Some adults also lose access to gender-affirming care. Medicaid no longer cover treatments for adults, state won’t provide surgeries to prisoners #LGBTQhttps://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-minors-missouri-196d873aa5a5b8b05b0af18f0e653a16
“Police are responding to a #shooting near Union Station in Kansas City, #Missouri, on Wednesday, where revelers gathered to celebrate with a parade and rally for the Chiefs' Super Bowl win.
Two armed people have been detained, according to Kansas City police.” #GunViolence
A Detective Sabotaged His Own Cases Because He Didn’t Like the Prosecutor. The #Police Department Did Nothing to Stop Him.
Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let #murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.
Execution protocol in the US state of Missouri allows for “surgery without anaesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life....
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
This election story reads like every conversation on Fedi.
"#Missouri’s attorney general race is an unusually #Jewish one: Will Scharf, a #Republican former prosecutor trying to unseat incumbent Republican Andrew Bailey, wraps tefillin every day; Elad Gross, a Jewish former assistant attorney general on the other side of the ballot, is married to a founder of multiple local Jewish nonprofits.
These biographical details hardly figured in the race until this month, when a fourth candidate — #Democratic Rep. Sarah Unsicker — floated a #conspiracy theory developed by a known right-wing troll that Scharf and Gross were #Israeli sleeper agents on a mission to destroy #American#democracy."
The #SupremeCourt has declined to block a judge's ruling that a Republican-backed #Missouri statute limiting state and local cooperation with the federal government in enforcing gun laws is unconstitutional. #SCOTUS
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.
“ A court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Independence, #Missouri, authorities said.” #GunViolence
Excited for baseball opening day today! As a Cardinals fan, I am predicting that they hit under 84.5 wins, finish third in the NL Central and miss the playoffs. I sure hope I'm wrong though, either way just excited to have this great sport back on my TV!
If you like the Cardinals or baseball in general, let's connect on here! What do you think about the upcoming season?
BFD in #Missouri: GOP tried to rush a constitutional change to crack down on future ballot initiatives. Anticipated an #abortion rights measure this fall.
JUDGE RULES Josh Hawley's #Missouri AG's office must pay nearly quarter million $ ($242,385.38) for its lawbreaking conduct & public record concealment during the 2018 election.
A big win for transparency, election fairness, and the rule of law. 💪🏼
#FOIA
Instead of sticking taxpayers with a record verdict, Senator Hawley should step up and 1) apologize to the people of Missouri and 2) donate proceeds from "Manhood" to cover this bill. #legal
A new bill introduced in the Missouri legislature makes it even less likely that people will see the state as a desirable destination. It would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they “contribute to social transition” of a trans youth- including pronouns, haircuts, information, and more. It would make the actions of the teacher “contributing to social transition” a class E felony. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2024/02/29/missouri-teachers-using-affirming-pronouns-could-face-felony-crime/#Missouri#Bill#Trans
I don't mean to be alarmist, but I keep seeing this misinformation everywhere, including from okay outlets like #NPR : There are NO!!!! exceptions to the FULL BAN on ALL transition medical care in Missouri that will take effect on Thursday April 27.
It doesn't matter if you've taken HRT for decades, have no sex organs anymore, or have additional medical reasons to take HRT. Your doctor will not be allowed to prescribe medication or surgery to treat gender dysphoria. There are requirements in the "emergency rule" that claim to allow you to continue HRT if you meet them...
BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO MEET THOSE REQUIREMENTS. How can you "resolve" autism, anxiety, depression, personality disorders?
Happy Spidertember in #Missouri - it's the season when most #spiders are giant, and the spiders own everything outside. That's not my grill anymore, it belongs to the spiders now.
State-level efforts to beat back #WomensReproductiveRights restrictions continue: #Missouri is the latest state where organizers have announced a drive to put the matter directly to voters.
If successful, the ballot measure could undo the state's near-total #abortion ban.
If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.
No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.
I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .
Good morning Masto friends, Happy Hump Day! It's currently 26°F(-3°C) in St Louis, yesterday it was 86°F(30°C) and my sinuses are feeling it. It's great Missouri (mis-ery) weather and typical. I'm looking forward to seeing what shenanigans my two Gen Z employees get up to today. One slept 1.5 hrs in their car yesterday, and the other refused to talk to a mean salesperson. I didn't even know that was an option. Fun times ahead...
THE KANSAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED AN AMBER ALERT FOR A CHILD ABDUCTION THAT OCCURRED AT 71ST AND PROSPECT AVENUE , KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI ON 03/16/2024 AT 09:00 PM. ABDUCTED WAS AMIRA BILLS, BLACK, FEMALE, AGE 4. SUSPECT VEHICLE IS A WHITE 2018 CHEVROLET MALIBU 4 DOOR BEARING MISSOURI TEMPORARY REGISTRATION '0' '7' '7','R' 'U' 'E'.
Jess Piper on how right-wing trolls taunt her when she speaks out about the shortcomings of her home state of Missouri by telling her just to move to New York or California.
But it's not just right-wing trolls: as she reports, she also routinely gets the very same advice from leftist allies who appear to think they're entitled to judge her for living where her family lives, a state that's her state, too.
Condemned inmate Brian Dorsey could face surgery without anaesthesia if vein is elusive (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Execution protocol in the US state of Missouri allows for “surgery without anaesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life....
[Article] Voters reject stadium tax for Royals and Chiefs (www.espn.com)
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
[Analysis] Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out. (www.nytimes.com)
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.