There are 9 article(s) tagged transgender legislation:

• April 2026

  • Transgender health care tracking bill passes Senate

    Sen. Brent Taylor advanced a bill that would track transgender health care and protect conversion therapy for those questioning their gender identity.

    By Noah McLane April 18, 2026

• March 2025

  • New anti-transgender bathroom bill heading to Gov. Lee’s desk

    A proposal in Tennessee that would require educational institutions that house students overnight to separate bathrooms “by immutable biological sex” is headed to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s desk for his approval.

    By The Associated Press March 20, 2025

• December 2024

  • Political Roundup: Knox County turnout tops Shelby, and more

    Meanwhile, Democrats have a race for leader of the state party. And the Republican sponsor of the state’s ban on transgender care takes a victory lap starting in Germantown after a Supreme Court hearing on the matter.

    By Bill Dries December 09, 2024

  • Memphis doctor is part of transgender-rights case before Supreme Court

    Memphis gynecologist Dr. Susan Lacy has been treating the transgender community for the past eight years. When Tennessee passed a law banning transgender care for minors, she decided to become a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

    By Jody Callahan December 08, 2024

• September 2023

  • Appeals court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled 2-1 that the transgender plaintiffs did not have a constitutional right to gender-affirming care as minors, saying courts should get out of the way of “thoughtful debates” within state legislatures.

    By Ian Round September 29, 2023

• July 2023

  • Tennessee can enforce ban on transgender care for minors, court says

    A federal appeals court has temporarily reversed a lower court’s ruling that had prohibited Tennessee from enacting a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

    By The Associated Press July 09, 2023

• June 2023

  • Tennessee’s ongoing trans rights lawsuits, explained

    Three lawsuits in Tennessee are testing the extent to which courts will protect transgender rights against a state legislature and executive branch that have aggressively sought to roll those rights back.

    By Ian Round June 25, 2023

  • Trans Tennesseans may lose option to alter gender on state IDs

    A law that defines “sex” as a person’s gender assigned at birth could cause some residents to lose access to basic services if they can’t update their IDs, according to advocates for trans rights.

    By Ian Round June 24, 2023

• March 2023

  • Memphis, national advocates rally for transgender youth rights

    The rally was hosted by OUTMemphis and the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. Other participating organizations included Choices Memphis and My Sistah’s House Memphis.

    By Alicia Davidson March 17, 2023