A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing "Conflicting and unclear" medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Three Missouri families who claim their children identify as the gender opposite their biological sex sued the state's Republican governor, Michael Parson, challenging the constitutionality of a law he signed June 7.
"Today is a day that will go down in Missouri history," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who defended the law, told The Daily Signal in a written statement Friday.
"Missouri is the first state in the nation to successfully defend at the trial court level a law barring child mutilation," Bailey also said in a press release.
The Missouri law, SB 49, called the Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, or SAFE Act, will go into effect Monday.
The law defines "Biological sex" as "The biological indication of male or female in the context of reproductive potential or capacity, such as sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender."
The law sunsets in 2027 as part of a compromise with Democrats in the Missouri Senate.
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