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Hundreds of healthcare workers ask Tennessee lawmakers to reconsider the state’s all-out abortion ban

Blake Farmer

October 9, 2022

More than 700 Tennessee health care workers have signed an open letter to state lawmakers, asking them to revisit the state’s all-out abortion ban.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion

Vanderbilt was never doing genital surgeries on minors but agrees to ‘pause’ other gender-affirming procedures

Blake Farmer

October 7, 2022

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has agreed to pause gender-affirming surgeries performed by its pediatric transgender health clinic, which has been under fire from Republican lawmakers. Vanderbilt has now responded to a letter signed by 62 GOP members of the Tennessee House of Representatives who demanded the clinic stop surgeries on minors.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Physician groups request DOJ investigate those targeting of pediatric trans care

Blake Farmer

October 6, 2022

Merrick Garland

National physician groups are now asking the Department of Justice to investigate threats to children’s hospitals over care for transgender teens. The clinic at Vanderbilt is just one of several that have been targeted by far-right activists.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Protestors who blocked a Mt. Juliet abortion clinic in 2021 have been charged with federal crimes

Marianna Bacallao

October 5, 2022

carafem sign

A group of anti-abortion protestors face felony charges for trying to block patients from entering a Mt. Juliet abortion clinic last year. The indictment, unsealed Wednesday, alleges that the 11 protestors met and organized over social media, before staging a blockade at the carafem health clinic.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, carafem

Vanderbilt’s pediatric transgender health services are back online — with an update

Marianna Bacallao

October 5, 2022

Vanderbilt children's

The websites for both VUMC’s minor and adult clinics have been down, following attacks from a far-right podcaster and Republican elected officials.  

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, VUMC

Southern Baptists pushed to ban abortion, but their leader wants a key safeguard added in Tennessee

Blake Farmer

October 5, 2022

Bart Barber
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Tennessee is one of the few states that has banned abortion with no exceptions. The law has what’s known as an “affirmative defense” if a doctor performs an abortion because the pregnant person’s life was in danger. The newly elected Southern Baptist Convention president, Bart Barber, says that’s not enough.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, Southern Baptist Convention

Parents of trans teens in Tennessee have their own concerns about rushing treatment, but they fear losing the option

Blake Farmer

October 4, 2022

Trans teen and mom
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Conservatives are ramping up a campaign to end transgender care for minors in Tennessee. But the journey of one Nashville teenager in the midst of a gender transition shows just how painstaking the process already is.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: lgbt, lgbtq, transgender, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Tennessee hospital chiefs huddle to address hiring crisis

Blake Farmer

October 1, 2022

Steve Cadiggan
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Tennessee hospital chiefs huddled in Franklin this weekend, largely to focus on their shared hiring crisis. The staffing shortage has not eased even as the pandemic subsides, and many hospital leaders are beginning to get used to high turnover.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: hospitals, job market, nurses, travel nursing

Republican lawmakers threaten new restrictions unless Vanderbilt commits not to perform gender transition surgeries on minors

Marianna Bacallao

September 28, 2022

A letter signed by most House Republicans formally asks Vanderbilt Medical Center to halt gender transition surgeries for transgender children and teens.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News

For trans teens in Tennessee, state law has a limited say in guiding their care — for now

Blake Farmer

September 28, 2022

Sen. Ferrell Haile
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Attacks on the care of transgender teens in Middle Tennessee has prompted calls by conservatives for investigations and new laws. Right now, there isn’t but one related law on the books, and it’d be hard to break.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Cassandra Brady, transgender, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital

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