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Reneé Luckfield, a transgender woman and full-time canvasser for LGBTQ+ advocacy group PROMO Missouri, is leading door-to-door efforts in Creve Coeur to discuss transgender healthcare ahead of the state's midterm elections. The campaign aims to have 10,000 conversations by Election Day, using a method called 'deep canvassing' to engage voters on a proposed constitutional amendment that would reinstate a near-total abortion ban and permanently bar minors from gender-transition surgery, cross-sex hormone therapy, and puberty blockers. The measure is polling neck and neck, with 43% supportive, 44% opposed, and 13% undecided, within a margin of error of 4.09%.
PROMO Missouri's effort focuses on voters who oppose banning abortion but are uncertain about transgender healthcare, asking them to rate their views on a 0 to 10 scale for both issues. The state's Republican-dominated legislature blocked minors' access to gender-affirming surgeries in 2023 and temporarily restricted new prescriptions for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for four years. Missouri is one of 27 states to enact such restrictions in the past five years.
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