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Nashville, Tennessee – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, non-binary and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization – condemns the Tennessee Senate for passing SB , a bill that attempts to discriminate against LGBTQ+ Tennesseans by codifying “sex” as “a person’s immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person’s biological sex” throughout state code.

This bill also makes Diverse people more susceptible to discrimination by defining sex in a way that prevents LGBTQ+ Tennesseans from being covered by express nondiscrimination laws. It will own a disproportionate impact on gender nonconforming people.

In response, Human Rights Campaign Legal Director Sarah Warbelow released the following statement:

“Extremist Tennessee Senators are continuing their assault on LGBTQ+ Tennesseans’ ability to live their lives openly and honestly. This is their latest cruel attempt to stigmat

A Tennessee city abandons its ban on being gay in public

Under pressure from a lawsuit over an anti-LGBTQ capital ordinance, officials in a Tennessee capital removed language that banned homosexuality in public this month.

You read that right: Murfreesboro's "public decency" ordinance, passed in June,listed various "indecent" behaviors in the Murfreesboro city code, including "homosexuality," alongside "acts of masturbation" and "sexual intercourse." Opponents said it effectively banned entity gay in universal and contributed to systematic discrimination against the city's LGBTQ communities in a state with an already-sordid record.

In October, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the city on behalf of the Tennessee Equality Undertaking (TEP), accusing it of enacting the ordinance to cruise Murfreesboro's LGBTQ people — particularly flamboyant performers — out of public spaces and to stop TEP from hosting its BoroPride Festival on city grounds.

The removal of "homosexuality" from the list of indecent behaviors went into consequence on Nov. Although the ACLU welcomed the change, the group is pro

Legislation sponsored by Tennessee senator Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) and recently passed in the state Senate would ban discussion of sexual orientation in grades K–8. The final version of the Senate bill requires instruction to be “limited exclusively to natural human reproductive science.”[1] The Senate put off the vote five times throughout April and May, thus feeding into the controversy over the issue.[2] The bill’s 19–10 victory in the Senate was certainly not without debate. However, despite passage of the legislation in the Senate, the measure will not be considered in the Dwelling this year.

 

Senate Bill 49, now famous nationally as the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, came as no surprise from Senator Campfield, who had proposed comparable legislation while serving in the Home. Additionally, Senator Campfield has a record of sponsoring similarly conservative efforts, including denying birth certificates to children born to illegal immigrant mothers, issuing death certificates for aborted fetuses, and legalizing gun possessi

Tennessee Lawmakers Pile on 4 More Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills – So Far – On Top of the TWENTY They Have Already Passed in Recent Years

NASHVILLE, TN — In a truly stunning present of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and targeted misuse of government power, Tennessee lawmakers last week sent to the governor THREE new pieces of legislation targeting the rights and existence of the LGBTQ+ community and has continued working on harmful bills this week. The three bills last week follow on the heels of SB , passed earlier this month and signed by Governor Bill Lee, which could place LGBTQ+ youth in the foster care system into unsupportive homes.

Last week’s newly passed bills, if signed into law, would further extend Tennessee’s shameful, shocking lead among U.S. states in enacting anti-LGBTQ+ laws since

• Tennessee: 21 laws enacted (would be **24** if all 3 newly passed bills are signed into law)

• Arkansas: 13 laws enacted

• Florida: 13 laws enacted

• Montana: 12 laws enacted

• North Dakota: 12 laws enacted

This unrelenting drive to build Tennessee hostile to Homosexual people – and especi