Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey says his experience as a prosecutor of child abuse and as a foster father fuel his resolve to end gender “experimentation” on children.
Missouri’s top law enforcement officer told The Daily Signal about his litigation and investigations related to transgender surgeries and hormone therapy for minors.
Missouri media have dishonestly covered his efforts “in a negative light,” Bailey said in an interview at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
“Their narrative is that this is, you know, a ‘social justice’ issue, and child mutilation is not a social justice issue,” Bailey told The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan. “Protecting kids is a social justice issue.”
Bailey, a Republican, added: “This is personal for me,” alluding to his efforts prosecuting child abuse cases in…
