Missouri AG’s office removes online anti-trans complaint form
The office of Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Friday removed an online form, first made available in March, that was used to collect reports or complaints about gender transition interventions that Missourians have either experienced or observed.
A spokesperson for Attorney General Bailey, Madeline Sieren, told the Washington Blade the move was necessary to “ensure the integrity of a government website” pending the outcome of an investigation into efforts by “far-left activists” to “hack our system.” Sieren did not respond to a follow up question about whether, how, and in which circumstances the Attorney General’s office might pursue law enforcement activity in connection with information reported on the form, specifically that which concerns health care administered to others.
Nor did she address a question from the Blade about why the Attorney General’s office sought information about supposed harms related to gender affirming care beyond those which they or their immediate families experienced directly.
The form was intended to serve as a “tip line” stemming from Bailey’s office’s investigation into a St. Louis pediatric transgender center, Sieren said, but the connection is not evident from the language used in the form, which broadly welcomes any “complaint or concern” about gender transition interventions performed anywhere in Missouri.
