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Missouri Senate advances bans on gender-affirming care, transgender student athletes

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The GOP-controlled Missouri Senate early on Tuesday advanced a pair of bills that would ban most gender-affirming care for minors and bar transgender people from competing in women’s sports.

Tribune News Service · Mar 21, 2023

‘This place was ugly at times’: Missouri lawmakers close book on contentious session

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers ended a contentious legislative session Friday having spent much of their five months in the Capitol fighting over the boundaries for the state’s new congressional maps.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · May 14, 2022

Hard feelings persist in Missouri Senate as lawmakers fail to approve congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — While most other states have finished work on new congressional boundaries, Missouri is one of just four without a map, as lawmakers here remain mired in personal feuds and disagreement over the lines.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Mar 13, 2022