Transgender Rights

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page will appoint members to the nine-person task force. The announcement comes as state lawmakers prepare to pass several bills limiting freedoms for transgender kids and teens.

State legislatures around the country have been trying to prevent transgender girls and women from competing with their peers. How that's playing out in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska depends on politics and people.

Parents of transgender kids say that their children just want to play sports with their friends — and that new legislation would isolate them.

One of the transgender bills was added to a bill containing multiple measures about Missouri elections, including the requirement that voters show a photo ID in order to cast their ballot.

Missouri law doesn’t prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Efforts to change that have failed for 24 years.

The event featured a range of speakers, who shared personal stories and some of the ways their organizations work to support trans and non-binary people in St. Louis and the surrounding region.

Supporters of the bill argued that allowing transgender athletes to play puts cisgender women at a disadvantage. Transgender kids and their parents said participating in team sports is about more than winning.

The underlying bill was tabled before it could be granted initial approval by the House.

A federal judge has ordered Illinois state prisons to immediately overhaul their policies for providing medical care to transgender inmates. Currently,…

Updated at 6:30 p.m., Aug. 1 with testimony from Illinois Department of Corrections officials — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois wants a…