Missouri enacts ban on trans athletes in women’s sports as Parson signs two anti-LGBTQ bills

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- College and K-12 transgender student athletes in Missouri will be banned from competing in women’s sports when school starts again in the fall. Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans both public and private schools, including colleges, from allowing students to compete in sports that don’t match the gender on their birth certificate. It allows female students to compete in male sports if there are no women’s sports available. “Women and girls deserve and have fought for an equal opportunity to succeed, and with this legislation today, w...