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Tennessee families and physicians urge SCOTUS to allow gender-affirming care

By Marianna Bacallao

August 27, 2024

Transgender teens and their parents are urging the nation’s highest court to block a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for the state’s youth.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Tennessee won’t purge voter rolls of people who disregard a letter asking them to prove citizenship

By Jonathan Mattise, APandKimberlee Kruesi, AP

July 18, 2024

Tennessee elections officials say any state registered voters among the thousands recently asked to prove their citizenship can stay on the voting rolls even if they don’t respond to the request.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, Associated Press, Elections 2024, immigrant, immigrants, voter registration in Tennessee, Voters

U.S. Supreme Court to hear gender-affirming care case from Tennessee

By Marianna Bacallao

June 24, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case about whether restrictions limiting gender-affirming care for minors are constitutional.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, gender-affirming care, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Moms sued for the right to hold up signs in the TN House. A new proposal would take that option away.

By Marianna Bacallao

January 31, 2024

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From a sign ban during the fall’s special legislative session, to this session’s new ticketing process, spectators have taken issue with Tennessee statehouse rules made behind closed doors. Now, a new proposal could eliminate one of the only avenues that constituents have for recourse: the courts.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, General Assembly, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee General Assembly, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee families appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, petitioning for an end to the state’s gender-affirming care ban

By Marianna Bacallao

November 1, 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.

Families of transgender teens in Tennessee are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a state law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Transgender youth in Tennessee will not be able to access gender-affirming care, federal court rules

By Marianna Bacallao

September 28, 2023

Transgender youth in Tennessee will not be able to access gender-affirming care for the foreseeable future.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

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

By 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.

By 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

By 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

By 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

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