In an attempt to prevent the passing of anti-trans bill House Joint Resolution 53, Brandon Boulware gave a rousing testimony to the Missouri House of Representatives with the story of his transgender daughter. "For years, I didn’t get it," said Boulware, walking the House through the early years of his child's transition. "For years, I would not let my daughter wear girl clothes.
I did not let her play with girl toys. I forced my daughter to wear boy clothes, get short haircuts and play on boy sports teams." While he thought he was protecting her from bullying, he admits he hoped to "avoid those inevitable questions as to why my child did not look and act like a boy." But he eventually realized that his daughter was "equating being good