Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee temporarily blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville officials filed a lawsuit Monday over a new Tennessee law that lets state leaders pick the majority of board members for the city’s international airport — one of several bills passed by Republican lawmakers this year that targeted the left-leaning city.Two weeks after one of his wife’s closest friends was killed in a Nashville school shooting, Tennessee Gov.
Hartman added that transgender children and their families were “living in fear” of the approaching date for the restrictions. “If Tennessee wishes to regulate access to certain medical procedures, it must do so in a manner that does not infringe on the rights conferred by the United States Constitution, which is of course supreme to all other laws of the land,” Richardson wrote.
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Federal judge blocks Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minorsThe bill, passed into law in March, aims to regulate some of the most personal aspects of life for transgender young people, from restricting the bathrooms they can use, to banning access to gender-affirming health care.
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Kentucky’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Blocked By JudgeThe state’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron, who is running for governor, called the ruling a “misguided decision” that “tramples the right” of legislators to do their job.
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Kentucky Judge Stays Ban on Gender-Affirming Medical CareHours before a ban on gender-affirming care was set to take effect in Kentucky, a federal judge stepped in and placed a temporary injunction on the bill
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NASCAR's Bubba Wallace hosting free block party on South Side WednesdayThe event will feature black-owned food vendors, NASCAR pop-ups, and Chicago native Lupe Fiasco is performing.
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Voter groups urge federal judge to block Florida election laws, citing discriminationVoter registration groups such as the NAACP and the League of Women Voters urged a federal judge on Wednesday to block parts of a new Florida elections law, arguing it violates the First Amendment and is discriminatory.
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