Catch up on everything from parent concerns about civil rights protections to lingering questions about federal requirements.
Nashville LGBTQ actors say they weren’t told they’d signed onto a Daily Wire film ridiculing transgender athletes
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.
From redistricting to anti-LGBTQ bills: WPLN’s top political stories of 2022
From voting to abortion to LGBTQ issues, Republican lawmakers left no stone unturned in 2022.
As Tennessee and other red states move to ban transgender athletes, President Biden asks for new rules regarding eligibility
President Joe Biden wants Title IX expanded to provide protections for nonbinary and transgender students. While advocates are pleased, they say the protections don’t go far enough amid increasing restrictions on transgender athletes.
Tennessee lawmakers’ targeting of transgender athletes runs afoul of the federal administration
Tennessee lawmakers have set themselves on a collision course with the federal government over whether transgender women should be able to compete in sports with cisgender women.
At the statehouse: Trans athlete bill heads to governor, abortion pill bill passes House, Supreme Court stops injunction on maps
Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Yarbro says legislators are trying to “get out of this General Assembly without doing too much damage.” But it’s not clear if members on the other side of the aisle are done trying to get controversial bills passed this session.
At the Statehouse: A precarious week for bills penalizing abortions, transgender athletes and the incarcerated
An abortion bill hits a dead end, a ban on transgender athletes in college is revived and a warning is issued over a criminal justice bill that could backfire.
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