The lieutenant governor supported bans on gender-affirming care for minors and could help push forward more anti-LGBTQ legislation.
Kehoe along with two other front-runners, state Sen. Bill Eigel and Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, made headlines last week after they received a crucial endorsement from former President Donald Trump.“They are MAGA and America First all the way,” Trump posted on his conservative social media platform Truth Social.
Kehoe has generally supported bans on gender-affirming care for minors and efforts to restrict transgender girls from participating in sports. But a decade ago he voted in favor of addingfor gays and lesbians into state law. If elected as governor, however, Kehoe could help push forward even more anti-LGBTQ legislation from the Republican-led legislature.a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and a law barring trans women and girls from playing on female sports teams.
The state’s incumbent attorney general, Andrew Bailey , also faced scrutiny for launching an investigation into the Washington University Pediatric Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital on the heels of testimony by a former employee who accused the center of malpractice. Bailey tried to obtain private patient medical records as well as information onThe Show Me state has not had a Democratic governor since 2017.
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