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Gov. Lee signs bill opening schools up to lawsuits for using trans students' preferred names or pronouns
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law to protect educators who misgender transgender students ...
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ACLU challenges state department's refusal to issue IDs aligning with trans Tennesseans' gender identity
Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union are challenging a Tennessee ... transgender Tennesseans' gender identity. State law effectively only recognizes a person's gender assigned at ...
ACLU continues challenge to Tennessee ban on sex changes for driver's licenses
The ACLU of Tennessee filed a new petition in an ongoing lawsuit challenging a state ban on sex changes to drivers licenses for transgender residents.
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Tennessee’s Gender Marker Policy Challenged in Court
The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...
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Eleven Tennessee GOP lawmakers ask Gov. Bill Lee to veto protection for birth control, IVF
Birth control and in-vitro fertilization treatment in Tennessee is already legal. House Bill 533 codifies those protections and doe not prevent lawmakers from regulating IVF in the future.
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ACLU of Tennessee files petition to challenge state rule about sex designations on driver licenses
In Tennessee, all identifying documentation—including driver licenses—must match; all transgender Tennesseans change the marker on their identifying documents if it does not match their birth ...