A group of about 50 protesters demonstrated outside the Missouri Capitol on April 17. They gathered to oppose a number of bills that would bar transgender youth from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity and receiving gender-confirming hormonal or surgical therapy before age 18.
Abolitionists @ Mizzou organized the protest, which convened at 2 p.m. on the corner of High Street and Broadway near the Capitol. A few people passed around a pink megaphone and spoke to the crowd about why they thought the bills were transphobic and oppressive. At about 2:20 p.m., the group began their march around the Capitol. They held signs and chanted, “Protect trans kids” and “Trans folks united will never be divided” as they looped around the building and back again.
A group of about 50 protesters demonstrated outside the Missouri Capitol on April 17. They gathered to oppose a number of bills that would bar transgender youth from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity and receiving gender-confirming hormonal or surgical therapy before age 18.
Abolitionists @ Mizzou organized the protest, which convened at 2 p.m. on the corner of High Street and Broadway near the Capitol. A few people passed around a pink megaphone and spoke to the crowd about why they thought the bills were transphobic and oppressive. At about 2:20 p.m., the group began their march around the Capitol. They held signs and chanted, “Protect trans kids” and “Trans folks united will never be divided” as they looped around the building and back again.
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Legislation limiting which athletic teams a transgender student-athlete can compete for passed out of committee Thursday and now heads to the Missouri House floor.
House Joint Resolution 53 filed by Chuck Basye, R-Rocheport, passed by a vote of 7-5 in the House Rules Administrative Oversight Committee.
Basye filed his bill as an amendment to the Missouri Constitution.
If the bill makes it all the way through the legislative process, it would need Missouri voter approval to take effect.
What does the bill say?
Basye describes the bill as addressing an issue of fairness, he said during a hearing last month in the House Emerging Issues Committee. When Basye introduced his bill, the way it was worded would prevent transgender athletes from participating on athletic teams that aligned with their gender identity and instead require them to participate in teams of their assigned birth gender.