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Tennessee lawmakers advance bill that emboldens school districts to discriminate against transgender youth<\/b><\/p>\n

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HB 2620 aims to require the TN Attorney General to defend schools that choose to discriminate against transgender students and staff<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK – <\/strong>GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today condemned the Tennessee House Civil Justice Subcommittee for advancing HB 2620<\/a>, a bill that aims to require the Tennessee Attorney General to defend school districts that dictate transgender students, faculty, and staff to only use the bathroom based on the gender they were assigned at birth. While this bill does not create a school-system-wide transgender bathroom ban, it is a clear attempt to embolden school boards to create these discriminatory policies knowing that state government resources will be used in their defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its core, HB 2620 is about encouraging discrimination and opening up transgender and gender non-conforming youth to bullying and violence,\u201d said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cMembers of the House should reject this bill and send a clear message to their constituents that Tennessee lawmakers are not in the business of emboldening discrimination and writing people\u2019s prejudices about the transgender community into law.\u201d<\/p>\n

A similar bill (HB 1488<\/a>) was introduced earlier this year and quickly withdrawn<\/a> by its sponsor before it ever made it into a subcommittee hearing. However, it was refiled after the Family Action Council of Tennessee<\/a>, one of the state family policy councils<\/a> of the national anti-LGBTQ group Focus on the Family<\/a>, convinced another lawmaker to put their name on the bill.<\/p>\n

Clergy and faith leaders across the state have already joined the Tennessee Equality Project<\/a> to come out in opposition<\/a> to this discriminatory bill, which now moves<\/a> to the full House Civil Justice Committee for a vote.<\/p>\n

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