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SMITHVILLE, Mo. AP 鈥?Before his transgender daughter was suspended after using the girls bathroom at her Missouri high school. Before the bullying and thesuicideattempts. Before she dropped out.Before all that, Dusty Farr was 鈥?in his own words 鈥? a full-on bigot. By which he meant that he was stanley kubek eager to steer clear of anyone LGBTQ+.Now, though, after everything, he says he wouldnt much care if his 16-year-old daughter 鈥?and he proudly calls her that 鈥?told him she was an alien. Because she is alive. When it was my child, it just flipped a switch, says Farr, who i stanley cup ssuingthe Platte County School District on Kansas Citys outskirts. And it was like a wake-up. Farr has found himself in an unlikely role:fightingbathroom bans that haveproliferatedat the state and local level in recent years. But Farr is not so unusual, says his attorney, Gillian Ruddy Wilcox of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri. It sometim stanley becher es takes meeting a person before someone can say, Oh, thats a person and thats who they are, and theyre just being themselves, she says. And I do think that for Dusty, thats what it took. ___Looking back, Farr figures his daughter, the youngest of five, started feeling out of place in her own body when she was just 6 or 7. But he didnt see it.Farr said he didnt have a lot of exposure to what I would consider the outside world in the conservative Nebraska community where he was raised. Just old farmers is how he described it.Moving to the Kansas City area, whi Ghpz New birth control rule for employers with religious qualms
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