Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville officials filed a lawsuit Monday over a new Tennessee law that lets state leaders pick the majority of board members for the city’s international airport — one of several bills passed by Republican lawmakers this year that targeted the left-leaning city.Two weeks after one of his wife’s closest friends was killed in a Nashville school shooting, Tennessee Gov.
Hartman added that transgender children and their families were “living in fear” of the approaching date for the restrictions. “If Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the United States Constitution, which is of course supreme to all other laws of the land,” Richardson wrote.
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