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transgender

Families and doctors sue over Trump’s order to halt funding for gender-affirming care

By Geoff Mulvihill, AP

February 4, 2025

Individuals who say they have been denied care since he signed it last week filed a lawsuit in a Baltimore federal court on Tuesday. They’re joined by a group of families of LGBTQ+ people and a medical organization.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, Donald Trump, gender-affirming care, transgender

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors

By The Associated Press

December 4, 2024

Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect similar laws enacted by another 25 states and a range of other efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: gender-affirming care, transgender, U.S. Supreme Court

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

By 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

Listen: As the U.S. Supreme Court takes up Tennessee’s ban on transgender healthcare, more families are leaving the state

By Marianna Bacallao

December 3, 2024

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care is constitutional. Some families of transgender kids have left the state.

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

It took a lot for Jackie Shane to get her documentary due

By Jewly Hight

September 19, 2024

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A new film called “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story” captures Shane as a powerhouse R&B performer and a Black, trans woman who got her start in Nashville, then took the Toronto scene by storm in the 1960s. She eventually stopped performing, and no one knew where she was.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, music, R&B, transgender

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

As classes resume, a new Tennessee law requires schools to out transgender students

By Alexis Marshall

August 8, 2024

It’s the first new school year since Tennessee passed a law requiring schools to out transgender students to their parents. Gov. Bill Lee signed the measure into law in May.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, Bill Lee, K-12, lgbtq, transgender

In Tennessee case, federal appeals court says there is no fundamental right to change one’s sex on a birth certificate

By Travis Loller, AP

July 16, 2024

The majority opinion of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found, “There is no fundamental right to a birth certificate recording gender identity instead of biological sex.”

Filed Under: Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Jonathan Skrmetti, transgender

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

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