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Missouri's Republican attorney general on Monday announced plans to file an emergency rule requiring an 18-month waiting period, among other limitations, for those seeking gender-affirming care for minors.
The rule will require an 18-month waiting period, 15 hour-long therapy sessions and treatment of any mental illnesses before Missouri doctors can provide gender-affirming care to transgender children.
The Missouri LGBTQ+ rights group Promo called Bailey's rule an abuse of power and said his office does not respect the professional guidelines of every major medical association in our country, who agrees gender-affirming healthcare is the standard of care for transgender Missourians".
While the rule appears to be aimed at helping children who might regret transitioning, it does so at the expense of those children who would indeed benefit from transition services," said Dr Jack Drescher, section editor of the gender dysphoria chapter of the DSM-5, the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association's mental illness manual.
Russia and China share the same, or some similar goals", Xi told Putin at the Kremlin on Monday. The state-owned news agency Tass reported that Xi had said: China and Russia are good neighbours and reliable partners".
Xi's trip to Moscow suggests that China feels no responsibility to hold the Kremlin accountable for the atrocities committed in Ukraine," said US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
China's peace" proposals to end the Ukraine conflict have been met with scepticism, with Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's national security and defence council, reiterating that any future peace plan must require Russia to withdraw its troops from all Ukrainian territory.
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