Mayor Q Explains KCMO Conversion Therapy Ban Repeal & Resistance

For the record and by way of background that most local newsies will overlook . . . 

KCMO Mayor Q's legal opinion has been consistently mistaken over the course of his tenure. 

Two examples that quickly come to mind are environmental rules and police funding . . . Issues that Missouri politicos were forced to argue, legislate and win against KC proper. 

And so . . .

MAYOR Q'S LEGAL ANALYSIS MIGHT NOT BE AS SOUND AS SUPPORTERS ARGUE!!!  

Still . . .

As city hall honcho . . . We respect him and the office and want to take a moment to share this controversial perspective that had dominate the LGBT discourse this week . . . 

Check-it:  

"Conversion therapy is a range of consistently discredited practices aimed at changing one's sexual orientation or gender identity. We at Kansas City rightly condemned the practice in 2019, due in particular to the psychological and physical harm it creates to children and young adults in our community. Jackson County joined us with a ban applying to other portions of the county four years later. The vile and harmful nature of the practice and our disagreement with it has not changed. 

"What's changed since is the legal terrain under which the bans operate. In early 2025, the City was sued by our headline chasing, former state AG Andrew Bailey. That's not rare, and he often lost. More formidable in suing us, however, was a right wing legal outfit around since the 1980s called the "Alliance Defending Freedom."  Citing, maliciously, the Bible, their life's work is filing lawsuits against cities like ours around the country. Their mission is to turn back protections throughout America, to create bad law in federal and state courts, extract damage awards from cities, and to use judicial activism to eliminate our municipal and state legislative authority to protect vulnerable populations.  Through our misfortune of their counsel hailing from our community, Kansas City is a target. 

"As our case has proceeded, conservative legal activists elsewhere obtained review in the US Supreme Court on conversion therapy. Consistent with the Court's recent destruction of rights and protections in voting and abortion, the Supreme Court ruled in late March that bans like ours, as written, are unconstitutional.  Weeks later, Kansas City found itself with argument before our federal court of appeals.  

"The legal guidance was clear, and as a lawyer, I understood it. Get out of the case and replace the legislation with something with a better chance to succeed in court." 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Mayor Q On FB: "Regrettably, repeal and replace is the approach we've taken."

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