SecState Ashcroft Shares Missouri Trans Crackdown Moment Of Doubt

Division amongst the GOP is important to document as prohibitions on "transition" procedures for adults runs contrary to small government inclinations of many libertarian-leaning conservatives. 

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Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said in an interview he disagrees with Bailey's regulation even though he doesn't support hormone therapy and gender surgeries for children and adults.

Ashcroft said adults should be able to make their own decisions and predicted the Republican attorney general's regulation won't actually take effect.

"I wouldn’t want to be the attorney that was defending it," Ashcroft, an attorney and engineer elected secretary of state in 2016, told the Post-Dispatch.

"If you’re an adult, you have the capacity to make your own decisions," Ashcroft said. "It’s a decision I would disagree with, but I don’t believe it’s the role of government to forbid it."

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Missouri secretary of state predicts transgender restrictions won't stand

JEFFERSON CITY - At least one top Missouri Republican isn't defending Attorney General Andrew Bailey's rules on transgender medical care, which advocates say would make Missouri the first state to restrict treatments for adults. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft said in an interview he disagrees with Bailey's regulation even though he doesn't support hormone therapy and gender surgeries for children and adults.