Executive Frank White says Jackson County's LGBTQ kids 'need to know they're valued'

Up To Date spoke with Jackson County Executive Frank White and Legislators Jalen Anderson and Jeanie Lauer about their commitment to reintroduce an ordinance that would ban anti-gay "conversion therapy" on minors.
Jackson County’s Legislature failed last week to pass an ordinance that would ban the practice of "conversion therapy" on minors.

Jalen Anderson, who represents the county’s 1st District at-large, said he thinks internal politics hindered the legislation.

“Since myself and Chairman McGee ran against each other for chair of the legislature, it seems that there's a great divide between those two camps,” Anderson told Up To Date. “It also seemed that there was an issue with the chair currently of the LGBTQ Commission over in Kansas City. It was too personal in that aspect of this vote.”