Social media users are urging people to protest against an online form created by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, which solicits responses from state residents who claim to have knowledge of questionable practices relating to gender-affirming care for transgender people.
The form in question urges Missourians to “submit a complaint or concern about gender transition intervention you have experienced or observed in Missouri.” The form does not require any documentation or evidence backing a person’s claim of malfeasance whatsoever.
In response to the form’s launch, social media users have suggested that people disrupt the attorney general’s move to encourage transphobic attacks against medical providers by flooding the form with comments in support of trans people and gender-affirming care.
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“The Missouri Attorney general has opened up a ‘reporting’ form to report on gender affirming care providers in the state. Given that he’s seeking to effectively ban care in the state for all trans people, let him know your concern. You know what to do,” wrote Harvard Law instructor and transgender activist Alejandra Caraballo, encouraging people to spam the form.
Other social media users issued similar calls to action.
“It would be a real shame if people flooded this with supportive trans messages,” one user wrote.
“You can just submit stuff. And YOU should. If you can, spare the time to fill...
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