“My team will get to the bottom of how this clandestine network of clinics has subjected children to puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, often without parental consent,” he wrote in a statement. “There is no more important fight than to ensure Missouri is the safest state in the nation for children. No stone will be left unturned in these investigations.”

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    I live in Missouri and I’m just posting to remind y’all my last Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill blamed Democrats “caring too much” about trans rights for the party not winning enough seats in Congress in 2020 and the Democratic Senate candidate after that didn’t even mention queer people on her website until a few weeks before the election. it’s so rough here unless you’re cishet.

    Andrew Bailey also is famous in this state for suing every school that tried to protect kids from covid.

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        I know you’re doing a bit but it’s so funny that everyone who’s said that to me IRL is a cis het person. The thing is, it wouldn’t even matter if I did vote Biden bc our state party is an absolute joke. The DSA chapter I used to co-chair was bigger than the local democrats were and we weren’t a very big chapter to begin with.

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      I guess when Roe v Wade was overturned, a lot of medical privacy got lost. I don’t know the specifics that’s just what internet lawyers told me.

      HIPAA basically has more to do with how medical providers, insurance, etc. handles your medical information.

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      All legal protections you have are suggestions that can be thrown out at any time, even your “constitutional rights”. They don’t have to overturn anything, all the courts have to do is come up with some bullshit interpretation about how it doesn’t apply to you.

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    Wish we lived in the conservative reality where trans people are running the government and hunting conservatives for sport.

    Instead, we have to deal with them having all the institutional power to attempt queer extermination while they claim they’re the ones being persecuted.

    When our time comes…