Missouri's Transgender Community Faces Legislative Challenges

A sports columnist has urged Missouri Governor Mike Parson to meet with a family whose child is transgender before signing two bills into law that would prevent transgender athletes from playing sports and block gender-affirming healthcare from Missourians. The columnist argues that playing youth sports is all about making memories and that denying transgender youth the opportunity to play is cruel. The father of the transgender child has been speaking at open hearings about the harm these bills could do to Missourians.