The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition is one of many LGBT groups around the country that is standing in solidarity by opposing attempts to abolish teachers’ unions ability to negotiate terms and conditions of professional service with local boards of education. In 2008, the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association pushed to have sexual orientation and gender identity added to the [...]
There are several bills of interest to the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition that will be discussed this week. On Tuesday, March 31, the House Health and Human Resources Committee will hear HB0050 by Brenda Gilmore (D-Nashville), which would require the Department of Health to develop a plan to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis in African [...]
This weekend, the President of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, Dr. Marisa Richmond, will appear on Out and About Today. She will be part of a roundtable discussion hosted by Pam Wheeler, with Katie Hill of the Human Rights Campaign of Nashville Steering Committee, and Scott Williamson of Outright Nashville, to discuss the recent vote in Nashville [...]
