Tennessee Governor Approves Transgender Youth Treatment Ban
Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee has approved multiple bills targeting transgender people over the past week.
Kimberlee Kruesi
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) After signing two bills into law targeting transgender people over the past week, Tennessee’s Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation that bans gender-confirming treatment for young minors despite objections that the series of bills unfairly discriminate against an already vulnerable population.
The move makes Tennessee just the second state in the United States to enact such a ban after Arkansas approved a similar version earlier this year over a veto from Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
Tennessee’s latest anti-trans law will expand beyond public schools and into public spaces.Gov. Bill Lee signed House Bill 1182/Senate Bill 1224 into law
KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their gender identity.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill Monday that represents a first-of-its-kind law, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group that decried the bill as discriminatory and said the required signs are offensive and humiliating. The law will go into effect July 1.
Lee, who is up for reelection next year, had previously been mum on whether he would sign the bill. Instead, he told reporters earlier this month that he always had concerns about business mandates but was still reviewing the bill.
Tennessee bill mandating bathroom signs called humiliating for transgender people KIMBERLEE KRUESI and JONATHAN MATTISE
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their gender identity.
Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill Monday that represents a first-of-its-kind law, according to the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group that decried the bill as discriminatory and said the required signs are offensive and humiliating. The law will go into effect July 1.