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The ACLU of Tennessee urged Governor Lee to veto SB 1971/HB 1895, which creates a new felony offense for anyone who “recruits, harbors or transports” a minor for the purpose of obtaining an abortion without the parent or legal guardian’s notarized consent.
We filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDSHS) on behalf of a transgender woman to challenge TDSHS’ enforcement of a new rule that bans all transgender people from changing the gender marker on their driver licenses.
The Senate passed SB 2572/HB 1931 which prohibits local governments from implementing ordinances that could increase accountability and transparency within police departments.
Advocates have settled a lawsuit filed against the City of Murfreesboro over its anti-LGBTQ+ ordinance and local policy denying all special event permit requests from the Tennessee Equality Project.
Murfreesboro officials quietly amended the city’s anti-LGBTQ+ city ordinance, in response to a lawsuit we filed on Oct. 6. This is a small but necessary step towards bringing Murfreesboro’s harmful ordinance into compliance with the Constitutional guarantees of Free Speech and Equal Protection.
Transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers asked the Supreme Court of the United States to block a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans people under 18.