transgender people

This week, the City of Springfield’s diversity chief is meeting with officials from Kansas City about LGBT equality.

Ozarks Public Radio has been documenting the lived experiences of transgender people in southwest Missouri. In the final part of this series, trans individuals share their responses to what they perceive as persecution in Missouri and around the country. A note for our listeners: This report contains frank discussion of sexuality, gender and acute political strife.

Ozarks Public Radio has been working to document the voices of transgender people living in southwest Missouri for this two-part series. A note for our listeners: This report contains frank discussion of sexuality and gender.

Around Missouri this week, LGBT people and their allies plan to gather in at least four cities to mark Transgender Day of Visibility, celebrated each year on March 31st.

Rori Picker Neiss has spent a lot of time in Jefferson City this year, as lawmakers passed new restrictions on trans youth.Ozarks Public Radio's Gregory Holman interviewed Neiss ahead of Transgender Day of Visibility, held every March 31.

This past weekend, Springfield hosted Missouri Lincoln Days, a big annual gathering of Show-Me State Republicans. KSMU's Gregory Holman talks to Springfield News-Leader politics reporter Galen Bacharier about highlights from the event.

The Missouri Supreme Court is expected to decide within months whether state law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity...