Tennessee enacted Senate Bill 1 in 2023. The statute prohibits medical intervention and treatments, including surgery, ...

The legislation is just the latest effort targeting the transgender community in Tennessee, where Republican lawmakers have over the years repeatedly enacted bills aimed at the LGBTQ+ community as ...

"Tennessee has the least amount of access to change gender markers," said Molly Quinn, executive director of OUTMemphis. "A lot of transgender people here used passports as their primary gender ...

The Supreme Court is currently weighing a major transgender case regarding Tennessee’s restrictions on so-called gender affirming care for minors. The case is widely seen as one of the most ...

In Tennessee, where state officials in 2023 denied trans people the right to make gender changes on driver’s licenses, Trump’s executive order has jeopardized the only available form of ...

transgender staff or any other person in their school district passed the Tennessee legislature. It could also open schools up to lawsuits if they use students' preferred names or pronouns ...

Two Tennessee counties are moving to ban all transgender books from their county libraries, a move that First Amendment experts are pushing back on. Rutherford County passed a policy in March ...

Gaines has since built a national platform as a conservative speaker and activist. In 2022, she lobbied for Tennessee’s law ...

Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-Tennessee, called Al Green, D-Texas, "boy" and referred to transgender people as "fairies" on an April 18 podcast interview with "F.A.M.E. Ministries." After receiving ...

SB 468/HB 571, sponsored by Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, and Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, has passed both the Senate and House of Representatives, and needs a final procedural vote before going ...

In her time with the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, Hermandorfer worked to defend the state's near-total abortion ban and challenged the ban on discrimination against transgender students.