By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
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Missouri’s Amendment 3 would reinstate an abortion ban with limited exceptions. But some of its most prominent supporters are spending much of the campaign talking about something else: transgender healthcare for minors.
That’s not accidental.
Jamie Reed, a former St. Louis gender clinic worker now campaigning for Amendment 3, put the strategy plainly at a recent event: “If we talk to people about the trans part of this amendment, we can get it to pass.”
Anna Spoerre looks at why supporters see the transgender provision as politically potent, even though most of that care is already banned in Missouri.
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by Anna Spoerre
Amendment 3 supporters are emphasizing restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors as they seek to overturn the abortion rights voters approved in 2024.
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by Annelise Hanshaw
The lawsuit seeks nearly $550 million to address what it alleges are decades of underfunding at Missouri’s historically Black land-grant university.
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by Ishrat Madiha
Andrew Bailey was the keynote speaker for the Columbia and Boone County Pachyderm clubs at American Legion Post 202.
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