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Tennessee joins multi-state effort to deny medical treatment based on religious beliefs

Marianna Bacallao

April 8, 2025

The measure would allow doctors, nurses and insurance companies to refuse procedures that go against their moral or religious beliefs.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, Bryan Terry, G.A. Hardaway, HIV, lgbtq, memphis, shelby county, Tennessee Equality Project, tnleg, tnpol

A bill that would ban Pride flags in schools hits a major roadblock in Tennessee’s senate

Blaise Gainey

February 29, 2024

flags Whitsitt Elementary

Legislation known as the Flag Bill has passed the House and has made it to the last stop in the Senate, but it may never get a vote. The bill would list out when and which flags a school or its employees may display on campus. But Senate Speaker Randy McNally has concerns.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, anti-lgbt legislaton, lgbtq, public schools, Tennessee Equality Project, tnleg, tnpol

Nashville LGBTQ actors say they weren’t told they’d signed onto a Daily Wire film ridiculing transgender athletes

Marianna Bacallao

June 27, 2023

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The movie, “Coach Miracle,” is described as a “misfit-team inspired basketball comedy” on casting websites. But this week, background actors in the film discovered that it starred cisgender men pretending to be trans women to win an Olympic basketball game.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: anti-lgbt, Daily Wire, lgbt, lgbtq, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee Equality Project, transgender, transgender athletes

Tennessee Senate Leaders Offer Lukewarm Response To Limiting Transgender Athletes

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

February 11, 2021

GOP leaders in the the Tennessee Senate say they want to be cautious when considering an anti-transgender bill making its way through the state’s general assembly. Senate Speaker Randy McNally told reporters Thursday he wants to hear the discussion of HB 3/SB 228 to see if it’s actually necessary.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Bill Lee, Cameron Sexton, Chris Sanders, Ken Yager, lgbtq, Randy McNally, Tennessee Equality Project

Tennessee Will Have LGBT Representatives For The First Time. Will They Stop Anti-LGBT Bills?

Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

December 3, 2020

A portrait of state Rep. Torrey Harris
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When the General Assembly convenes January, it will have for the first time not one, but two LGBT lawmakers. This could mean a slowdown — though not necessary the end — of these types of measures.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Chris Sanders, Eddie Mannis, lgbtq, LGBTQ Victory Fund, Sean Maloy, Tennessee Equality Project, Torrey Harris

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