Transgender children, families sue Tennessee over care ban
1 year, 8 months ago

Transgender children, families sue Tennessee over care ban

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three transgender children and their parents sued Tennessee on Thursday over a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The law, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, prohibits health care providers from providing hormone treatments or surgeries for transgender youth where the purpose is to allow the child to express a gender identity “inconsistent with the immutable characteristics of the reproductive system that define the minor as male or female.” The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee and other groups in federal court in Nashville. It claims the Tennessee law violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause because it allows the banned medical treatments when they are used to treat conditions other than gender dysphoria. “All of the treatments prohibited by the Health Care Ban are permitted when undertaken for any reason other than to affirm a gender identity that differs from a patient’s sex designated at birth,” the lawsuit reads.

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'Rights for me, not for thee': Justices Alito and Thomas slammed for hypocrisy in rulings
3 weeks, 4 days ago

'Rights for me, not for thee': Justices Alito and Thomas slammed for hypocrisy in rulings

Raw Story  

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again tipped their hands and shown that ideology guides their Supreme Court judgments more than legal philosophy, according to a report. The conservative jurists issued conflicting decisions last week in a pair of cases involving parental rights and gender identity, offering contradictory analyses that Slate columnist Hila Keren said "reveal a position of …

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
1 month ago

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"

Salon  

The Supreme Court last week appeared likely to support a contentious Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral argument in one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights in the nation's history. "We think it would be sufficient for the Court to recognize that a law that on its face says you …

US Supreme Court rejects parents' plea challenging school gender-identity policy
1 month ago

US Supreme Court rejects parents' plea challenging school gender-identity policy

India Today  

The US Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. The Supreme Court rebuffed an appeal by a group of parents of …

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students
1 month ago

Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Wisconsin parents who wanted to challenge a school district’s guidance for supporting transgender students. Parents with children in Eau Claire public schools argued in a lawsuit that the school district’s policy violates constitutional protections for parental rights and religious freedom. But Alito described the case as presenting “a question …

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing
1 month ago

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing

NPR  

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. toggle caption GROUND Media/GROUND Media "Many in our community, particularly trans people and their families, are filled with anxiety and fear about what a second Trump presidency could bring," says Ash Lazarus Orr, with Advocates for Trans Equality. Sponsor Message Another proposal during Trump's first term — which intended to strip "sex …

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care
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1 month ago

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care

Raw Story  

Attorneys who argued against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming healthcare at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed hope that the court's nine justices will take "the opportunity to affirm the essential freedom and equality of all people before the law," while reports indicated that the right-wing majority is inclined to uphold the ban. "We ask the Supreme Court to commit …

Far-right influencer calls for 'trans ideology' to be ‘erased' from earth at Supreme Court
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1 month ago

Far-right influencer calls for 'trans ideology' to be ‘erased' from earth at Supreme Court

Raw Story  

As justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were hearing arguments in the Biden administration’s challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors, far-right influencer, anti-LGBTQ commentator and activist, and Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh was outside the Court attacking what he calls “trans ideology” — and calling for it to be “entirely erased from the earth.” Walsh …

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
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1 month ago

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth during oral arguments on Wednesday, in what experts say is the most important transgender rights case the court has ever heard. The law is meant to encourage minors to “appreciate their sex” and prohibits doctors from prescribing …

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care
1 month ago

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care

Raw Story  

by Chris Lefkow The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, a case with repercussions for similar state prohibitions across the country. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, in a brief with the Supreme Court, said the state law is intended to "protect minors from the life-altering risks of …

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors
1 month, 1 week ago

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

Associated Press  

Follow live updates and analysis on the Supreme Court’s hearing on a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer warned a decision favorable to Tennessee also could be used to justify nationwide restrictions on transgender healthcare for minors. The Biden administration and the families and health care providers …

Why Justice Jackson invoked interracial marriage in Supreme Court’s historic transgender care arguments
1 month, 1 week ago

Why Justice Jackson invoked interracial marriage in Supreme Court’s historic transgender care arguments

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court was more than an hour into its feisty debate over gender-affirming care when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked one of the most significant civil rights precedents in the nation’s history. A liberal named to the court by President Joe Biden two years ago, Jackson said she was “suddenly quite worried” about how the arguments over …

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors
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1 month, 1 week ago

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

Politico  

Opponents of the Tennessee law framed their arguments around Gorsuch’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, contending that denying certain medicines to adolescents based on their sex amounted to discrimination and required strong justification from state officials. With the court’s three liberals all appearing to support the plaintiffs challenging the Tennessee law, Gorsuch’s vote alone would not be enough …

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
55 years ago

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

CNN  

CNN — Twenty-six states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. While 19 states passed …

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care
1 month, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments for the most important transgender rights case it has ever reviewed — one that could have significant consequences on the future of lifesaving gender-affirming care for youth in the country. The Tennessee law, Senate Bill 1, encourages minors to “appreciate their sex” by prohibiting puberty blockers or hormone …

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
1 month, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Salon  

The Supreme Court is set to hear one of the most important trans rights cases in history on Wednesday, with the nation's highest court set to decide whether a state-level ban on gender-affirming care for minors is an unconstitutional form of sex discrimination. In defending its ban, the state of Tennessee has repeatedly cited the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, …

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
1 month, 1 week ago

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide

CNN  

CNN — When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son. Parents like Sarah and transgender communities across the United States will be paying close attention Wednesday as the US Supreme Court …

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?
1 month, 1 week ago

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?

Associated Press  

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under age 18. Here’s a look at what’s typically involved: Evaluation and diagnosis happen first Young people who persistently identify as a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth are often referred to clinics where teams from various …

Dobbs Was Just the Beginning. Now Trans Rights Are Being Tested at the Supreme Court.
1 month, 1 week ago

Dobbs Was Just the Beginning. Now Trans Rights Are Being Tested at the Supreme Court.

Slate  

On Dec. 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in what is likely to be the most important trans rights case in history. It will have knock-on effects for civil rights jurisprudence that will affect the freedoms and protections of LGBTQ+ Americans, women, medical providers, and parents’ rights to raise their children without interference from the state. Chase Strangio: …

First transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, challenging health care ban for minors
1 month, 1 week ago

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

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court this week wades into the contentious issue of transgender rights, the justices will hear from an attorney with knowledge that runs deep. Chase Strangio will be the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the nation’s highest court, representing families who say Tennessee’s ban on health care for transgender minors leaves their children terrified …

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
1 month, 1 week ago

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?

LA Times  

The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their parents. Biden’s Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar told the court “there is broad consensus in the field that adolescents who have reached the early stages of puberty and have experienced gender dysphoria over …

In transgender care case, Supreme Court to consider how far equal protection goes
1 month, 1 week ago

In transgender care case, Supreme Court to consider how far equal protection goes

CNN  

CNN — When the Supreme Court hears an appeal Wednesday from transgender youths challenging a Tennessee ban on their medical care, fundamental principles forbidding sex discrimination will be on the line. Throughout decades of cases, the high court has described Black Americans and other racial minorities as a “suspect class,” needing the greatest constitutional protection, and it has deemed victims …

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 month, 1 week ago

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people. “The stakes are high, of course, for transgender adolescents, but also for the parents who are watching their children suffer, who are just trying to do right by …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge

CNN  

CNN — A Missouri judge upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors Monday, a victory for opponents of the practice in a continuing nationwide battle over transgender issues. The 2023 law known as Senate Bill 49 prohibits the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery in people under the age of 18 to treat gender dysphoria, defined …

A Missouri judge says a law banning surgery, medications for transgender minors is constitutional
1 month, 2 weeks ago

A Missouri judge says a law banning surgery, medications for transgender minors is constitutional

Associated Press  

— A Missouri court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors, a victory for supporters of the ban as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on the issue next week. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement that Missouri is the “first state in the nation to successfully …

Chase Strangio: ACLU attorney will be the first openly transgender advocate to argue before Supreme Court
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Chase Strangio: ACLU attorney will be the first openly transgender advocate to argue before Supreme Court

CNN  

Washington CNN — An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union is set to be the first openly transgender person to argue before the Supreme Court this December when the justices hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. “Chase Strangio is our nation’s leading legal expert on the rights of transgender people, bar none,” said Cecillia …

The Supreme Court’s new term begins today. Here’s the big cases to watch
3 months ago

The Supreme Court’s new term begins today. Here’s the big cases to watch

The Independent  

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Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court

Slate  

As a new term of Supreme Court rulemaking approaches, minors’ access to gender-affirming care is on the chopping block. When the 6th Circuit dismissed these two claims, the plaintiffs from Tennessee and Kentucky filed separate petitions for Supreme Court review of the ruling’s reasoning regarding discrimination and parental rights. Indeed, a rising number of red states have recently worked to …

Arizona’s ban on transgender girls playing girls school team sports remains blocked, court says
4 months ago

Arizona’s ban on transgender girls playing girls school team sports remains blocked, court says

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — A federal appeals court upheld a lower-court ruling that blocks Arizona from enforcing a 2022 law that bans transgender girls from playing on girls school sports teams. We did not expect to get a fair hearing in the 9th Circuit.” Rachel Berg, an attorney for National Center for Lesbian Rights, which represents the girls and their parents, said …

New Hampshire’s highest court upholds policy supporting transgender students’ privacy
4 months, 1 week ago

New Hampshire’s highest court upholds policy supporting transgender students’ privacy

Associated Press  

CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld a school district’s policy Friday that aims to support the privacy of transgender students, ruling that a mother who challenged it failed to show it infringed on a fundamental parenting right. At issue is a policy that states in part that “school personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a …

Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Advocates say transgender patients are facing barriers to “potentially life-saving health care” after a federal appeals court ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out. Jon Harris Maurer, the public policy director for LGBTQ+ rights group Equality Florida, characterized the law as government intrusion into “vital health care”. …

US appeals court clears way for Florida ban on transgender care for minors
4 months, 2 weeks ago

US appeals court clears way for Florida ban on transgender care for minors

The Independent  

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US appeals court clears way for Florida ban on transgender care for minors
4 months, 2 weeks ago

US appeals court clears way for Florida ban on transgender care for minors

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court Monday cleared the way for Florida to enforce a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, blocking a lower court order against the ban while the matter is appealed. Florida’s attorneys had conceded during the district court trial that the state cannot stop someone from pursuing a transgender identity, but said it can regulate medical …

Transgender teens sue New Hampshire over sports ban
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Transgender teens sue New Hampshire over sports ban

The Independent  

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Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court keeps new rules about sex discrimination in education on hold in half the country

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday kept on hold in roughly half the country new regulations about sex discrimination in education, rejecting a Biden administration request. Most Republican-controlled states have banned gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, and several have adopted policies limiting which school bathrooms trans people can use and barring trans girls from some sports competitions. In …

Trans teens file lawsuit challenging New Hampshire law banning them from girls’ sports
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trans teens file lawsuit challenging New Hampshire law banning them from girls’ sports

Associated Press  

MEREDITH, N.H. — The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The lawsuit claims the New Hampshire law violates constitutional protections and federal laws because the teens are being denied equal educational opportunities and are being …

Federal protections of transgender students are in effect where courts haven’t blocked them
5 months, 1 week ago

Federal protections of transgender students are in effect where courts haven’t blocked them

Associated Press  

New federal protections for transgender students at U.S. schools and colleges took effect Thursday with muted impact because judges have temporarily blocked enforcement in 25 states and hundreds of individual colleges and schools across the country. A Kansas-based federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump added another wrinkle, asserting power over states led by Democrats: He said the rule …

Judge blocks Biden trans healthcare discrimination ban from taking effect in early Loper-Bright test
6 months, 1 week ago

Judge blocks Biden trans healthcare discrimination ban from taking effect in early Loper-Bright test

Salon  

A U.S. District Judge in Mississippi has blocked a Biden administration proposal to ban discrimination based on gender identity — including transgender status — among healthcare providers. Citing Loper-Bright v. Raimondo — the Supreme Court decision last week that killed the landmark Chevron Doctrine, a legal principle that gave agencies the power to enact policy not explicitly written into law …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
6 months, 1 week ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

The Independent  

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Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law
6 months, 1 week ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek medical care for their children. “We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light …

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

CNN  

CNN — The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the state’s ban on nearly all gender-affirming care for minors to remain in effect. LGBTQ advocacy groups slammed the ruling Friday, with Lambda Legal — one of the parties involved in the original lawsuit against the bill — saying, “It is impossible to overstate the devastating impact of this ruling.” …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law

LA Times  

LGBTQ+ activists protest the bill banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth at the Texas Capitol in Austin last year. The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek medical care for their children. “We conclude the Legislature made a …

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case

Salon  

The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a legal battle over state bans of gender-affirming care in its next session, accepting for review what experts say could be one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights — should the justices take the opportunity to make it so. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support …

Supreme Court will take up state bans on gender-affirming care for minors
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court will take up state bans on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices’ action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender people, school sports participation, bathroom usage and drag shows. “Without this …

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens

LA Times  

People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility by the Capitol in Washington in 2023. In the last three years, however, many Republican-led states have enacted laws that forbid medical treatments intended to help youths under 18 transition to what the measures describe as a “purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” The Biden administration, the …

Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children tossed out by federal judge
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children tossed out by federal judge

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A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge
6 months, 4 weeks ago

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional. Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the state went too far when it barred transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their parents’ permission. …

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge
7 months ago

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis, speaking in January, signed the transgender care restrictions last year as he was gearing up for his presidential campaign, which was based largely on such culture wars. “I’m so relieved the court saw there is no medical basis for this law — it was passed just to target transgender people like me and try to push us out …

Tennessee governor OKs penalizing adults who help minors receive abortions, gender-affirming care
7 months, 1 week ago

Tennessee governor OKs penalizing adults who help minors receive abortions, gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s governor has approved legislation designed to block adults from helping minors get an abortion or receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, proposals that are both likely to face immediate legal challenges when they go into effect later this year. Lee’s actions mean Tennessee will soon become just the second state in the nation to enact legislation …

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