January to March 2010
Lobbied members of the Tennessee General Assembly during the current session. Worked to pass legislation to add “gender identity or expression” to Hate Crimes statute, to permit gender changes on Tennessee Birth Certificates, and against legislation that would discriminate against LGBT persons, including legislation that would ban unmarried, cohabiting couples from adopting [...]
During a recent briefing provided by Administration officials to transgender activists as part of the Congressional Lobby Days organized by the National Center for Transgender Equality, representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the long awaited trial for the February 2008 beating of Duanna Johnson will begin on Monday, April 5, in Federal District [...]
By now, you have received the forms for the 24th Dicennial Census. Unfortunately, it will not count transgender Americans and residents. There are only two boxes for sex on the form, and if you check both boxes, or neither box, a computer will assign you a gender at random. Therefore, it is recommended that you [...]
Teaching Sexual Diversity Bill Rolled
On Wednesday, the Tennessee House K-12 Subcommittee rolled two bills by Representative Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville), HB0821 which would ban teaching sexual diversity, and HB0812, which would require parents to sign written permission slips for students to take Family Life Courses, until the committee’s Last Calendar, which is expected to be on March 31.
The Tennessee Transgender Political [...]
Recently, three members of the Metro Council, Megan Barry, Erik Cole, and Ronnie Steine, sent a letter to the Metro Human Relations Commission asking them to begin looking at discrimination in private employment and housing based on gender identity. This effort, with which the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition has been involved and strongly supports, will broaden [...]
The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition wishes to thank all of you who came to Nashville on Monday and Tuesday to meet with legislators as part of TEP’s 6th Annual Advancing Equality Day on the Hill.
Dozens of LGBT Tennesseans and supporters discussed various issues including SB0253 by Sen. Beverly Marrero (D-Memphis)/HB0335 by Rep. Jeanne Richardson (D-Memphis), which would add “gender [...]
As we celebrate the annual Holiday season, the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition reminds all that the fight for equal rights for all LGBT people is an ongoing one. The recent passage of Federal Hate Crimes legislation is an important step forward, but we still have to pass a fully inclusive Hate Crimes bill at the state [...]
Today, communities all across this nation will honor those who have served their country. Among those who have worn this nation’s military uniforms in the past, or are serving today, are many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. These service members face the prospect of immediate discharge from every branch of the military if they [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on ENDA, sometime this month, reportedly before Thanksgiving. lease contact Tennessee’s two co-sponsors of ENDA, Representatives Stephen Cohen and Jim Cooper, to thank them for their support and to remind them to oppose any effort to strip “gender identity or expression” from the bill.
Currently, 12 [...]
Today, history was made when President Barack Obama signed the Defense Authorization, which includes theMatthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition was one of many groups working across the country on behalf of this legislation which is the first law ever enacted by the Federal government that provides [...]
