Missouri Senate sends limits on transgender health care to House

The upper chamber also gave final approval to a plan requiring transgender athletes to play on sports teams matching the sex shown on their birth certificate. That athletics plan passed on a 25-8 vote, mostly along party lines, with Sen. Doug Beck, D-south St. Louis County, the only Democrat to support it. Before the vote on transgender health care, Sen. Greg Razer, a Kansas City Democrat and only openly gay member of the Senate, said, "This today is a declaration of war on our community," he said. "Just like every...