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Signs will be allowed in the Tennessee House, after being banned during the special legislative session

Marianna Bacallao

September 14, 2023

A legal challenge to a controversial statehouse rule has been settled.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, General Assembly, gun reform, special session, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee Senate, Tennessee State Senate, tnleg, tnpol

Transgender youth can no longer access gender-affirming care in Tennessee. Here’s what’s next for families of trans teens.

Marianna Bacallao

July 9, 2023

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A Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth has taken effect, despite being initially blocked by a federal judge. That’s left parents of transgender kids without a lot of options.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect immediately, after a federal court overturns a lower court’s ruling

Marianna Bacallao

July 8, 2023

In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect Saturday, nearly a week after a federal district judge temporarily blocked the law.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Federal judge blocks Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Marianna Bacallao

June 28, 2023

In Judge Eli Richardson’s ruling, he writes that criminalizing gender-affirming care for trans kids, but not for cisgender or intersex kids, “imposes disparate treatment on the basis of sex.”

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, General Assembly, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

What’s next for the case against Tennessee’s drag restrictions

Marianna Bacallao

May 24, 2023

The fate of a first-of-its-kind law restricting drag in Tennessee is now in the hands of a federal judge. Attorneys in a legal challenge to the new law delivered closing arguments Tuesday.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, drag, Friends of George's, General Assembly, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Memphis Pride, Pride, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

DOJ sues Tennessee over law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Marianna Bacallao

April 27, 2023

Two people wrapped in a pride flag attend a vigil Nashville for the victims of a mass shooting at an LGBT+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Nov. 19, 2022.

Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming care for transgender kids is facing another challenge. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint against the state, arguing that the new law violates the Fourteenth Amendment and will deny “medically necessary care” for trans youth.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, drag, General Assembly, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

LGBTQ advocacy groups sue Tennessee over law blocking hormone therapy for trans youth

Marianna Bacallao

April 20, 2023

Several LGBTQ advocacy groups are suing Tennessee over a new law that bans transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care, including hormone therapy or puberty blockers.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, drag, General Assembly, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

The nation reacts to the Tennessee legislature’s expulsion of 2 Black lawmakers

Rachel Iacovone

April 7, 2023

History has its eyes on Tennessee. And so do powerful people — near and far.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bernice King, Bob Mendes, Freddie O'Connell, Gloria Johnson, hillary clinton, Joe Biden, Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Kamala Harris, March For Our Lives, NAACP, Sandra Sepulveda, Zulfat Suara

Memphis theater company files first legal challenge to Tennessee’s drag restrictions

Marianna Bacallao

March 29, 2023

The plaintiff raises money for the city’s LGBTQ community by performing original plays. The nonprofit argues that the law isn’t clear on what conduct is prohibited by the law, or what it will mean for its all-ages drag shows.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, drag, General Assembly, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol

New anti-LGBTQ legislation faces hurdles in the Tennessee statehouse

Marianna Bacallao

March 22, 2023

Bills targeting LGBTQ Tennesseans have encountered obstacles in the statehouse this week, after similar measures sped through the General Assembly earlier in the session.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, lgbtq, Randy McNally

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