Planned Parenthood defies Missouri court order to turn over records on child sex change practices at clinic

According to KCTV, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Thursday that Planned Parenthood had to "turn over documents exposing how they subjected children to puberty blockers and irreversible surgery, often without parental consent." Planned Parenthood said it has no plans to turn over the records.

Bailey added to a post on X, "We are 3/3 in our court battle to force clinics to comply with our investigations."

“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,” AG Bailey said of the court order. “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.”

Despite the court order to turn over the documentation, Planned Parenthood has dug its heels in on the topic.

Richard Muniz, interim president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri responded, saying, “Gender-affirming care has been recognized as essential and lifesaving care by more than two dozen leading medical organizations; patients have no reason to have this war waged by the Attorney General against their care."

“Attacks like this one are what happens when politicians put politics over people — people who look, identify, and believe differently from them," Muniz added.

Muniz called the investigation a "sham" and an "attack against transgender Missourians."

However, sex change surgeries as well as puberty blockers used on minors has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months after the release of the WPATH files. Additionally, the NHS in the UK banned the use of puberty blockers on minors altogether in March.