Missouri's emergency rule will significantly restrict trans health care for residents of all ages. Restrictions include mandatory therapy, a one and a half to three-year waiting period, a resolution of all mental health symptoms and an autism screening.
as any social, emotional or physical care that centers, encourages and supports a person’s gender identity; it can range from use of a patient’s gender pronouns to medication to surgery.being enacted around the country. But the rule he unveiled three weeks later applied to Missourians of all ages."All psychiatric symptoms" from other mental health conditions must be"treated and resolved.
The patient has, for the past three consecutive years,"exhibited a medically documented, long-lasting, persistent and intense pattern of gender dysphoria." The patient has received a"full psychological or psychiatric assessment," totaling 15 hourly sessions over 18 months.The patient is not experiencing"social contagion" as it relates to their gender identity. It did not offer more detail.
The rule lets patients who are receiving treatment to continue to do so as long as they"promptly" begin working to comply with the emergency rule’s standards. It’s unclear how many adults would be disqualified or restricted from accessing care under these new standards, but experts say the number of patients eligible for care will drop.that would ban gender-affirming care for minors.Studies have found that transgender people tend to have higher rates of mental health diagnoses than the general population.
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