The Missouri new law that affected transition-related care and allowed providers of transition-related care for minors to be sued by their patients until they turn 36, is part of a national effort by Republican state lawmakers to restrict LGBTQ+ rights. More than 500 state bills targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people have been introduced in 2023. Of those bills, 75 became law. The plurality of those laws — 21, including Missouri’s — are restrictions on transition-related care for minors, while 11 of them bar transgender student-athletes from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identities. Ten of the laws limit classroom instruction on LGBTQ+ issues and/or the use of pronouns within school that don’t align with a person’s birth sex, and eight restrict which restrooms trans people can use in schools or other publicly owned buildings. #Queer Up The USA View