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The Washington University Transgender Center in Missouri would prescribe irreversible gender changing drugs to children as young as 12 after seeing them just twice, according to the whistleblower who worked there for four years. Jamie Reed, who is gay and married to a transgender person herself, told Dr Phil Primetime that classmates would arrive together demanding to transition as the fad swept through their schools. 'I saw a young person who was begging to have their breasts put back on after having surgery,' she told the program. 'We were encouraged not to make a big deal out of it and definitely not to tell other families. I couldn't continue to be silent on it.'

Brian Dorsey was executed by the state of Missouri less than 10 hours after the governor and the United States Supreme Court denied him clemency. The 52-year-old died after a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre at 6.11pm Tuesday night. It came after Dorsey released a final statement Tuesday morning, where he said: 'Words cannot hold the just weight of my guilt and shame.'

Brian Dorsey (left) is scheduled to be executed tonight after the governor of Missouri (inset) denied his last minute plea for clemency. The 52-year-old shot his cousin Sarah and her husband Benjamin Bonnie (left) in their Missouri home in 2006, and has since spent 17 years in prison. Governor Mike Parson denied clemency for Dorsey despite a petition that garnered statements from 72 current and ex-corrections officers who vouched that he was reformed.

An attorney for the suspect - 52-year-old Brian Dorsey - called Governor Mike Parson's decision Monday 'devastating,' after a petition garnered statements from 72 current and ex corrections officers who vouched Dorsey was reformed in prison. The petition also received support from a former Missouri Supreme Court justice and others, as two appeals are still pending before the US Supreme Court. One focuses on Dorsey's record of good behavior during his 17 years of incarceration, as he is still scheduled to die by injection Tuesday night at the state prison in Bonne Terre. The other says his life should be spared because his trial lawyers had a conflict of interest, due to a pair of public defenders being paid a $12,000 flat fee he claims provided them with no incentive to invest time in his case.

On December 23, 2006, Dorsey, 52, and Benjamin Bonnie, 28, shot Sarah and Benjamin Bonney, 28, who had aided him out of jail with opioid dealers and took him in. He was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death, but his lawyers have filed a last-minute appeal for clemency, arguing that the murders occurred as a result of a'drug-induced psychosis and alcohol-induced blackout.'

In September 2022, Britt Reid, the son of Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, pleaded guilty to driving while inebriated causing bodily harm, and was sentenced to three years in jail for a 2021 auto accident. Six people were injured, including then-five-year-old Ariel Young, who sustained a severe brain injury, and he spent two months in hospital. After Missouri Gov. John Kerry's resignation, he took the following: Following just 16 months in jail, Mike Parson commuted Reid's sentence last week, Young's mother, Felicia Miller, said the family has been denied justice.

The ACLU of Missouri sank Jamie Reed, a transgender clinic whistleblower, and her communications with journalists as part of their lawsuit to prohibit a state statute that prohibits hormone therapy for minors. The ACLU demanded Reed's hand over all of her communications with journalist Jessie Singal and other media journalists in a subpoena filed on Thursday. Doctors rushed trans-identifying children to addictive drugs in February last year, according to Reed, a former employee of the St. Louis Children's Hospital, who claims that doctors rushed trans-identifying children into dangerous drugs.

Rep. Ashley Aune (right) of Missouri has slammed Missouri's "archaic" divorce law, which has no exceptions for domestic violence, sand claims that it doesn't make sense in 2024. A state statute dating back to 1973 makes it impossible for a judge to order a divorce when a woman is carrying a fetus. The legislation was designed to guarantee that issues regarding custody and child care are resolved before the couple's complete divorce. Aune has introduced a bill that states that pregnancy cannot stop a divorce or separation from being finalized, after her constituents said that it was a'significant issue.'

Up 19 percent in a week and nearly three times the rate a month ago, 38 states are now reporting 'high' or'very high' levels of flu-like illness. The most recent reports from the CDC, which is from the week leading up to December 30, showed that 10 million Americans have now been sickened with the flu, up 40% in a week or 50% more than in a week before the pandemic began in 2019. A total of 110,000 people have been hospitalized with the disease, or twice the number at the same time in the year before Covid struck.

Johnny Johnson (pictured above), 45, was found guilty of Casey Williamson's disappearance, which sparked a frantic hunt in her hometown, Valley Park, a tiny suburb of St. Louis, on July 26, 2002. With Johnson's older sister, Casey's mother was one of the best friends in his youth, and she had even helped babysit him. Casey's family let him sleep on a couch in the house where they were also sleeping after Johnson attended a barbecue the night before. On the walk to the shabby factory in the morning, Johnson lured the child to the abandoned factory, even carrying her on his shoulders. Casey screamed and screamed as he attempted to sexually assault her. According to legal records, he smuggled her with a brick and a huge boulder and then she washed off in the nearby Meramec River. According to authorities, Johnson confessed to the murders the day before.

A 12-year-old transgender boy in North Carolina has been outraged because state legislators' decision to prohibit puberty blockers, which her child is currently on. Since bills were recently passed in the state's legislature, Amanda Dumas' son Michael's regular shots that discourage him from beginning menstruation are in jeopardy. The state Senate approved a ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgeries in June, but the House suggested only a procedure ban at health care facilities. Mike has been living and identifying as a boy since the age of five and has been on blockers since age nine, according to Amanda and her husband Josh Dumas. The mother is worried about changes to Mike's hormone therapy and more gender-affirming services as a result. I'm not trying to pressure this on my child.' I don't want to be doing that. 100% will, but I'll make sure, regardless of what laws are in place, that he will get the health services. Put me in jail. I'll be your martyr; I don't care,' she told the Charlotte Observer.

Missouri and Louisiana stepped closer to banning transitional care for trans youth, triggering a tsunami of state attempts to limit access to trans care. At least 17 states have outright banned it, but many others have severely restricted access to it, with some even levying financial fines on doctors who break the rules.

Any of the governors in the United States live in large estates, with Kansas leading the way by a wide margin. Using Google Maps estimates and public records, a new report looked at the most significant and smallest properties that serve as official residences. The Kansas governor's house is almost 12 times larger than Georgia's next highest, which is almost 12 times larger.

A man was executed in Missouri for the 2004 murder of his mother and her three children, a felony he denied until his death. Leonard Taylor, left, was pronounced dead shortly after 6 p.m. on Tuesday after being given a lethal injection in the Potosi penitentiary in the American Midwest. Taylor was sentenced to death in 2008 for Angela Rowe and her three children's murders, aged 10, six, and five, the youngest of whom were found dead, each with a bullet in the head, top right. Taylor had long claimed that he was in California when the shootings occurred, but that his allegations of innocence were dismissed again and again. The bodies were discovered in December 2004 at the bottom right of the page.

Amber McLaughlin buffed her teeth a few times, uttered her final words, and shut her eyes as she was executed on Tuesday, becoming the first transgender woman to be put to death years after she was found guilty of murdering her ex-girlfriend. As the fatal dose of pentobarbital was administered, McLaughlin, 49, spoke quietly with a spiritual advisor at her side. In a final, written, statement, McLaughlin said, 'I am sorry for what I did.' 'I am a loving and caring person.' Beverly Guenther, a former lover of the Missouri defendant, was found guilty of stalking and killing her mother Beverly Guenther before dumping her body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis. A jury was unable to reach a decision, but a judge sentenced McLaughlin to death in 2006.

The first openly transgender woman on death row is set to be executed on Tuesday for raping and murdering her ex-girlfriend, whose body she dumped by a Missouri river. Amber McLaughlin, 49, who spent time in jail, would die by lethal injection 19 years after she killed Beverly Guenther, 45, who had taken out a restraining order and often had police officers walk her to her car out of fear of her life. The execution is expected to be the first death of a transgender person in the United States. It comes less than a month after the prisoner begged Missouri Governor Mike Parson to save her from death due to "mental health problems."

Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri is being joined by fellow Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver in an attempt to prevent the first execution of a transgender prisoner in US history. Amber McLaughlin, now 49, was found guilty of the murder of Beverly Guenther, a 45-year-old girl. In St. Louis County, Guenther was assaulted and stabbed to death. McLaughlin is set to be executed on January 3rd. Judge Steven Goldman sentenced McLaughlin to death in 2006 after the jury was still deadlocked on her sentencing. McLaughlin was arrested under her old name, Scott McLaughlin. This week, the Democrats argued that "crucial mental information" was withheld from the jury in McLaughlin's case. Bush wrote on Twitter, where Bush wrote the December 27 letter, expressing her displeasure with the death penalty: "The death penalty is cruel, barbaric, and inhumane." Previously, the St. Louis native had called on President Biden to give clemency to all federal death row prisoners.

McLaughlin, the first openly transgender woman to be executed, was found guilty of raping murdering her ex-girlfriend in 2003. She is urging Missouri Governor Mike Parsons to save her life. Before she raped and strangled Guenther, the girl identified as Scott McLaughlin had been terrorizing and stalking her. According to the original lawsuit, she was sentenced to life in first degree murder, life for armed criminal conviction, and life for forcible rape.

On Monday, Orlando Harris, 19, is suspected of killing Alexandria Bell, 15, PE instructor Jean Kuczka, 61, at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. Authorities confiscated a different gun from his house due to his mental health condition. The young man was refused a licenced firearms purchase and had been refused from purchasing one at a St. Charles store, and an FBI background check had also barred him from buying a gun from a licensed license. Thankfully, the adolescent was able to purchase the alleged school shooting rifle from a private dealer. Private dealers are not obligated by federal law, as licensed dealers, to perform a mandatory background check. According to reports, his mother attempted to have the gun removed from their house on October 16, but police were unable to do so because the state doesn't have red flag rules.

Orlando Harris, 19, was a former student at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. He shot and killed a female instructor and a teenager before being shot and killed by police on Monday morning.

A shooting at a Missouri high school has killed at least three people, including the gunman. The Center Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis was the subject of a shooting. According to a spokesperson with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, eight others were taken from the scene. Just two people were shot in the district before, which was previously announced.

Biden's statement on Thursday showed an 'astonishing degree of skepticism,' according to Dave Yost, who said it was 34 days before the election and that he could have done it at any time. When Biden ordered the blanket pardon that would remove the convictions for nearly 6,500 Americans and ordered an investigation into whether marijuana should still be classified as a Schedule I drug, he urged state governors to follow his example. 'I called for the reclassification of marijuana in 2015,' Yost tweeted. Although this action might make sense in particular situations, Biden's blanket pardon 34 days before an election is the most political, cynical abuse of pardon power in history.' The law, to be precise, gives a president the power [to] reclassify marijuana administratively.'