Report on counter-mobilization against a far-Right anti-trans rally in Jefferson City, Missouri.

A coalition of Missouri and Kansas-based leftist organizations came together on Monday, March 20th, to intervene in an aggressive and genocidal rally to ban trans health care in Missouri. The rally was organized by various far-Right and fascist organizations dedicated to vilifying and erasing trans people from public life. Trans youths are specifically under attack by SB-49, a bill created by senators Bill Eigel and Rick Brattin, which would ban gender-affirming care for children. SB-49 would effectively ban any “physician or health care provider provid[ing] gender transition procedures to any minor or refer any juvenile to another health care provider for such procedures.” People’s Spark, the Kansas Trans Guard, and members of the YDSA of the University of Missouri Columbia congregated after a multi-hour journey from various locations across Missouri and Kansas to take a defiant stand against these fascists.

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