LGBTQ lifestyles are “inappropriate” and offend a “significant portion” of students, parents and Tennessee residents with “Christian values”
"Transgender kids are kids, and they do not deserve to be the targets of dehumanizing attacks that invalidate their identity”
This bill marks the second anti-trans bill enacted in 2022, and the 11th state to pass an anti-trans sports ban
Avaz Shikhmammadov-Hafizli victim of a so-called honor killing
One Republican senator voted against HB 1557
Magomed Tushayev killed during Ukrainian military skirmish
Commentators attack U.S. military 'wokeness'
Seven Republicans voted against measure
LGBTQ+ advocates in Texas were outraged calling actions “disinformation, being spread about transgender people and their healthcare”
Republican lawmaker's proposal sparked widespread outrage