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Bill to track transgender Tennesseans passes the House
1+ week, 1+ day ago (341+ words) Tennessee lawmakers could soon track the number of transgender patients seeking gender-affirming care. Amid a crowd of chanting protesters, the state House passed legislation Thursday that would compile data on trans Tennesseans. State troopers carried one protester out of the…...
Tennessee's newest anti-LGBTQ bills go against U.S. Supreme Court rulings
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (414+ words) Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a host of anti-LGBTQ bills that would run counter to U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Two measures, both proposed by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Franklin, would challenge landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage and established protections for discrimination based…...
Fort Campbell school must return books with racial, gender themes to shelves, judge rules
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (252+ words) An elementary school that serves children of military families at Fort Campbell must put books that the Department of Defense ordered to be removed from its library shelves back, per a Virginia federal judge's ruling issued Monday. As a result,…...
ACLU sues over new law banning gender-affirming care for incarcerated Kentuckians
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (301+ words) Untreated Gender Dysphoria creates a substantial risk of severe physical and psychological harm to the individual, which I have personally suffered from in my life," Marcum said in a statement. This case is not about a lifestyle choice, it is…...
Trans kids in half of U.S. states cannot get gender-affirming care as SCOTUS upholds Tenn. ban
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (558+ words) Transgender kids in nearly half of all U.S. states will not be able to access gender-affirming care after the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on the care for minors. The court ruled 6-3 along conservative/liberal lines in the landmark decision....
Paducah Pride festival set for Saturday
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (317+ words) The western Kentucky LGBTQ+ community is marking Pride Month this June with a festival in Paducah this weekend. Organizers with the group Paducah Pride United Together " which formed last year to put on its first large-scale Pride event " have planned…...
‘Gays and Gals with Guns’ course teaches firearm safety to members of underrepresented communities
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (780+ words) On one of the first warm and sunny Saturday afternoons of the year at a shooting range in Boaz " a rural community in far western Kentucky " a group of women and LGBTQ+ community members joined together to learn the basics…...