MO House Advances Puberty Blockers and Cross-Sex Hormones Bill

A Missouri House bill seeking to permanently bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to transgender minors is now in the Senate for further consideration.

Sponsored by Republican Representative Melissa Schmidt of Eldridge, the bill also specifies after March 1^st of next year prescriptions for cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs given to minors before August 28, 2023, will no longer be considered as valid.

The Bill was third-read and passed out of the House along party lines by a 102-40 vote and has since, on Tuesday of this week, been introduced and first read in the Senate.