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News (USA)
Tennessee GOP is trying to ban drag shows & gender-affirming care for trans youth
The bill contains numerous falsehoods about trans youth, including some around the story of David Reimer’s suicide.
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Election 2022
GOP candidate promises to ban Pride Month because “Homosexuality and Transgenderism are evil”
“When I win this election everyone will know their gender again,” Stewart Parks wrote. “The populace will know Men cannot get pregnant and can actively define a woman.”
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News (USA)
Republicans are now threatening to defund schools that support trans students
A bill that would defund trans-inclusive schools has already passed the Tennessee Senate and will likely be voted on later this week.
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News (USA)
Business owners can get 6 months in jail if they don’t post sign warning about transgender shoppers
The sponsor of Tennessee’s new law requiring signs that warn customers trans shoppers can use the bathroom in their establishment is warning small business owners they could go to jail if they don’t follow the law.
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Bias Watch
Gay Republican group touts support for anti-trans legislation & mocks out singer T.J. Osborne
The Tennessee chapter issued two cringeworthy statements that read as if they were written by your grandpa if he was desperate to sound cool.
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Politics
Tennessee Republicans block resolution honoring country singer T.J. Osborne because he’s gay
Anti-LGBTQ Rep. Jeremy Faison blocked the symbolic honor because it wasn’t “heard in committee.” Now the Brothers Osborne – and other country stars – are responding.
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News (USA)
Trans billionaire & music industry send pointed message to Tennessee GOP
As mass shootings and COVID ravage the country, Tennessee Republicans are focused on demonizing transgender school girls. And they’re willing to bankrupt the state to do it.
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News (USA)
Proposed law would make businesses post signs saying they allow trans people to use the bathroom
A notice would be required to be posted at every entrance to the building and every restroom door in Tennessee.
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News (USA)
Tennessee’s governor signs bill that bans trans youth in sports into law
This makes the Volunteer State the third this year to pass a ban on trans people in sports.
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News (USA)
Antigay politician admits to secretly prescribing opioids for lover. She’s also his second cousin.
The doctor and author of Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay bill” was handing out prescriptions to family members. One of them was also his lover – and his nurse.
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Politics
Lawmaker wants to punish educators that allow trans athletes to compete as they identify
Rep. Bruce Griffey, wearing a Trump pin, claims he has no ‘ill will’ in introducing his latest anti-trans bill. Others find the law ‘insulting’.
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News (USA)
Anti-gay GOP state rep resigns amid allegations of Grindr hookups
59-year-old Tennessee State Rep. Bill Sanderson reportedly hit on men 40 years younger than him despite being married to a woman and repeatedly voting for anti-LGBTQ legislation.
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Politics
Tennessee Republicans pass bill to allow adoption agencies to discriminate against gay couples
Despite opposition by clergy and business leaders from around the state, Republicans forced through a measure meant to give Christians a license to discriminate.
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Politics
Religious leaders are coming out in droves to oppose Tennessee’s proposed anti-LGBTQ laws
“We call on people of good will to join us in speaking out for basic fairness,” the statement reads.
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Politics
Proposed Tennessee law would make it a crime for trans people to use the locker room
The state would classify it as “indecent exposure.”
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News (USA)
Tennessee lawmakers give OK to child marriage as insult to loving gay couples
A “family values” group doesn’t want to stop 50-year-old men from marrying 10-year-olds because same-sex marriages are an “abomination.”
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News (USA)
Tennessee just passed a new law meant to undermine LGBTQ rights
Courts will need to use the “ordinary meaning” of words in laws that use “husband and wife.” In other words, those laws won’t apply to same-sex couples.
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News (USA)
LGBTQ protest at Tennessee capitol spurs Republican crackdown on security
The clamor for tighter security follows allegations that protesters last week disrupted state business and vandalized a legislative aide’s flower vase.