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A Missouri judge temporarily halted a rule that requires adults and children to complete more than a year of therapy before receiving gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery. Judge Ellen Ribaudo of St. Louis County Circuit Court temporarily blocked enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule. She ruled that the plaintiffs would “be subject to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General was permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.” As she pointed out, patients “are at high risk…