Show-Me Psych Out: Kansas City Confronts 'Trans Ideology' Legal Fight

Local mental health counseling confronts a politicized battle as Missouri leaders dispute local policy and practices . . . Here are the basics:

Kansas City and Jackson County are now being sued for ordinances forcing “transgender ideology” on licensed counselors, and making it illegal for them to differ from the governments’ views on sexuality.

Nonprofit legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey are co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging Kansas City’s 2019 ordinance and Jackson County’s 2023 law.

The two governments’ overlapping laws prohibit counselors from disputing even the youngest of clients’ views that they’re actually a different gender than their biology says they are.

“These ordinances interfere with counselors’ conversations with their clients and force them to adopt the government’s view of these topics in violation of their religious beliefs,” ADF says in a press release.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Heartlander: Kansas City, Jackson County face lawsuit over laws forcing counselors to self-censor on transgender ideology

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