For Missouri's transgender youth and their parents, the legislature's focus causes anxiety

For three years, Missouri Republicans have attempted to pass legislation prohibiting trans girls from playing on girls’ sports teams. Parents say their children just want to play sports with their friends, and the measure would "codify into law discrimination against trans youth."
When Jennifer Harris Dault’s daughter Hope came out to her kindergarten class as a transgenderr girl via Zoom, no one really batted an eye. Her teachers supported her, and so did her friends. Rori Picker Neiss’s son had a similar experience when he came out as a boy. The two kids, ages 7 and 11 years old, have faced an outpouring of support from their communities and schools.

But the Missouri legislature doesn’t feel the same way.