The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition wishes to remind all residents of Nashville and Davidson County, that Election Day is tomorrow, Thursday, August 4. Polls open at 7:00 am and remain open until 7:00 pm. Voters will be electing a Mayor, Vice Mayor, and the entire Metro Council. Over the past four years, we have seen two major [...]
Please join the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) in Nashville this Saturday, July 23, at 6pm, for TTPC’sStatewide Summer Meeting. We will discuss many issues such as the status of state legislation affecting transgender people, including TTPC’s birth certificate and hate crimes bills, the new Voter ID law which TTPC opposed, and the new ban on local non discrimination ordinances, [...]
April to June 2011 The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition lobbied members of the Tennessee General Assembly during the current session. Worked to pass legislation to add “gender identity or expression” to the Sentencing Enhancement statute, and to permit gender changes on Tennessee Birth Certificates, and against legislation that would discriminate against LGBT persons, including legislation that would [...]
This week, two events have reminded us of the dichotomy of the lives of transgender Americans. On Wednesday, I had the honor and privilege of being one of several hundred who attended the LGBT Pride Reception at the White House. Just prior to the public remarks made by the President of the United States, I [...]
Earlier today, two Board members of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC), Secretary Jaimee Faucette and President Dr. Marisa Richmond, participated in a meeting organized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) with comedian Tracy Morgan to discuss his angry rant at recent show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on June 3. Also participating in the meeting from Nashville [...]
Today, the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) joined several other co-plaintiffs in filing suit against the State of Tennessee over the recent passage of HB600, which repeals the recently adopted Non Discrimination Ordinance in Metro Nashville, and prevents other local governments from passing similar legislation. At today’s Press Conference in front of the Courthouse of the Metropolitan [...]
The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition is standing against SB632/HB600 because the bill is blatantly discriminatory. It is an attempt to deny basic rights to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Tennesseans To that end, TTPC is joined by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund in opposing this bad bill. We have sent a joint letter to Senator [...]
Today is the annual Day of Silence, a project organized at this time each year by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network(GLSEN), on which students in high schools and colleges across the nation go silent to draw attention to every-day harassment, bullying, and discrimination endured by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth because of their sexual [...]
The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) is thrilled with the adoption Tuesday night of the Contract Accountability Non Discrimination Ordinance (CANDO), BILL NO. BL2011-838, which would ban discrimination against all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees of contractors in Metro Nashville and Davidson County. It means that Nashville will now only spend taxpayer money with contractors who [...]
It finally comes down to this. On Tuesday, April 5, the Council of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County will vote on the Contract Accountability Non Discrimination Ordinance (CANDO), BILL NO. BL2011-838, which would ban discrimination against all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees of contractors in Metro Nashville and Davidson County. The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC) [...]
