Trans Families Fear Life In Kansas City

This recent report contends that locals are planning escape routes to Portugal . . . Meanwhile, the fear narrative offers another perspective regarding the dire consequences of government ID that corresponds to biological sex at birth . . . Here's the word . . .

Kansas City’s transgender community is sandwiched between two states where Republican-controlled legislatures have made limiting transgender health care and other rights a top priority. Now that President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, an onslaught is coming at the federal level, too, with executive orders that may portend curtailed transgender rights and access to care across the country.

Members of Kansas City’s transgender community said they worry most about growing limits on health care — even for transgender adults — and about new rules that could prevent them from having driver’s licenses and passports that accurately reflect their gender, putting their safety at risk.

“It’s a really tough environment to be trans or to be raising trans kids these days,” said Shira Berkowitz, senior director for public policy with PROMO, a Missouri LGBTQ rights organization.

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Transgender Kansas Citians face growing restrictions and mounting fear

Bills introduced in Missouri could extend the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors and its restrictions on school sports.