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The campaign to defend access to transgender healthcare for young people in Missouri is taking an unhurried approach to talking with voters about the proposed ban. Amendment 3 would also restrict abortion again in the state.

Early voting is underway in Kansas and Missouri before the Nov. 3 election. KCUR’s series “What’s the Deal, KC?” is here to answer your questions about the abortion and transgender care ban, how redistricting is affecting Missouri and more. Text your questions to 816-601-4777.

Amendment 3 on Missouri's November ballot doesn't just reverse the 2024 abortion rights amendment passed by voters. It also would place within the state constitution a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Amendment 3 supporters are emphasizing restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors — even though Missouri already bans most of it — as they seek to overturn the abortion rights that voters approved in 2024.

If approved by voters on Nov. 3, Missouri Amendment 3 would repeal abortion rights guaranteed in the state Constitution. It also would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth — something that's already prohibited by state law.

If passed, Amendment 3 would repeal the abortion rights amendment enshrined in the Missouri Constitution in 2024. It would also add a constitutional ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the state.

Federal officials are targeting four Kansas schools for their policies surrounding transgender students. But what is it like to be a transgender student in those districts? We'll hear from one student who spent formative years of her life at Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools.

Reed, a transgender student, spent formative years of her life at one of the four Kansas school districts the Trump administration has threatened over transgender policies.

New York Times opinion columnist M. Gessen says that by invalidating the driver’s licenses and policing the bathroom use of transgender residents, Kansas is drifting toward the policies of Nazi Germany.

The U.S. Department of Justice has followed through on its threat to sue Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools based on a dispute over the district’s transgender policies.

Over the summer, an internationally renowned expert on authoritarianism visited Kansas to investigate the state's new polices on transgender rights. Hear why New York Times columnist M. Gessen sees similarities between Kansas and Nazi Germany.

Siobhan Kirchstein received a warning — which is the penalty for a first offense under the new Kansas law — for not using the bathroom that matches her gender assigned at birth. So far, the University of Kansas has not received a fine.