ACLU of Missouri

The trial comes after transgender minors, their families and health-care providers challenged the constitutionality of a 2023 law restricting physicians from prescribing gender-affirming medical care to minors.

Transgender adolescents say a state law barring them from beginning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones has caused them harm and should be blocked.

The Missouri Court of Appeals provided ballot summaries for Missourians for Constitutional Freedom that were much more favorable than what Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft wrote.

The federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri alleges barring gender-affirming care to minors is discriminatory.

The Missouri Court of Appeals in Kansas City is weighing a pair of cases relating to a ballot initiative that would amend the Missouri Constitution to establish a right to abortion. The court is expected to rule soon.

Circuit Judge Jon Beetem wrote that the summaries crafted by Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft were "argumentative" or unfairly biased against the abortion rights ballot initiatives, and ignored their protections for contraceptives.. Beetem rewrote each of the six ballot summaries himself.

A series of proposed amendments to Missouri's constitution seeking to legalize abortion is back in court, this time over the ballot language proposed by the secretary of state and expected costs.

Out of 11 versions of a petition submitted to Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, abortion rights supporters appear focused on six, with an eye to winning over voters.

Opponents of the ban on most transgender minors receiving hormone therapy or puberty blockers say it runs afoul of Missouri's state constitutional equal protection guarantees.

Cole County Judge Beetem promises fast decision on the case.