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sex and gender

First transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, challenging Tennessee’s health care ban for minors

The Associated Press

December 4, 2024

The issue of transgender rights animated the presidential campaign. Now it has made its way to the Supreme Court, and in more ways than one.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, gender-affirming care, sex and gender, Tennessee Attorney General, transgender

Here’s why Tennessee’s AG wants access to reproductive medical records — including for out-of-state abortions

Catherine Sweeney

July 20, 2023

State attorneys general in 18 states — including Tennessee’s — are fighting with the Biden Administration over medical records related to reproductive care.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Jonathan Skrmetti, sex and gender, U.S. Supreme Court

Tennessee bill to define ‘sex’ as gender assigned at birth mirrors other red state crackdowns on identity

Julia Ritchey

May 4, 2023

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Tennessee is poised to join several other states that have created legislation to restrict people from changing their gender from anything other than the sex they were assigned at birth.  

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, legislation, lgbtq, sex and gender, tnpol, transgender

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