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The bill could have far ranging impacts in Tennessee and outside of the state, and could be broadly used to target health care professionals across state lines.
Colbert says Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield's bill is educational -- it will teach children 'there is absolutely no adult that they can trust.'
Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield tries again to get his "Don't Say Gay" bill passed into law.
"From one elected official to another: Stop Lying. It's gross," the gay Pennsylvania lawmaker told Tennessee's Republican senator-elect.
Trump's nominee for Army secretary -- who will succeed Obama's out secretary, Eric Fanning -- compared trans people to ISIS and has worked to dismantle LGBT rights as a Tennessee senator.
The DOJ is looking to join a suit brought by Tennessee families.
Butler, the first Black lesbian in the U.S. Senate, read an excerpt from Sister Outsider to her colleagues Thursday to make a point about the power of breaking silence.
He once sponsored a bill that would have allowed people to discriminate based on “sincerely held” beliefs.
One bill would require the state attorney general to defend school districts' anti-transgender restroom restrictions.
The bill, which would require trans student athletes to compete under the gender they were assigned at birth, passed in the state's Senate and awaits a vote in the House.
The bill, now signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee, lets faith-based agencies receive public funds even if they discriminate and protects them from lawsuits.
A bill passed by the House and pending in the Senate would allow anyone to refuse to solemnize a marriage that offends their conscience or religious beliefs.
The move sparked backlash from fellow country stars Kacey Musgraves and Maren Morris.
Critics say the bill opens to the door to unsafe homes for LGBTQ+ children.
The ban "is inimical to equality and equal dignity before the law," the American Bar Association's brief says.
Despite marriage equality being the law of the land with significant support, the GOP continues to try to legislate LGBTQ+ people out of society.
