The bill may allow parents to adopt or foster LGBTQ+ kids and put them through conversion therapy, according to advocacy organizations
Republicans control both chambers of the state house & have been advancing what Tennessee Equality Project called a “slate of hate” bills
A measure that would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed the Tennessee Senate without debate along party lines
Today, women are being treated like second-class citizens: we are less than men with no control over our own bodies
The suit calls the law vague and arbitrary, failing to give teachers an understanding of what is banned in classrooms
“They’re terrified- They don’t know what’s next, they don’t know how this will be used or whether they will be targeted in some way"
Gov. Bill Lee just signed into law a bill that would define sex to exclude trans people & require it on all legal documents
"I try to come out and do things because, as a queen, people look to me and my fellow drag performers for hope, for guidance"
“If Tennessee wishes to exercise power in restricting speech it considers obscene, it must do so within constraints of the Constitution"
Gov. Bill Lee signed the so-called “drag ban,” into law on March 2, setting fines and even jail time set to take effect on April 1