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Slate of Hate Advances Through Tennessee Legislature

The Tennessee legislature is working to fast track and pass several anti-LGBTQ bills, including business license to discriminate, child welfare and anti-trans bills, known to advocates as the Slate of Hate.  With a number of bills having had significant movement in the House, bills are being scheduled in the Senate. These proposed measures will not only cost taxpayers, but will ultimately have a significant impact on the State of Tennessee.

The are four dangerous bills HRC is currently monitoring:

SB 1499, a bill to require the Attorney General to defend anti-transgender school policies, is scheduled for a hearing today in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Its companion bill, HB 1274, has already passed the House Judiciary and has now been scheduled in the House Finance Ways & Means Subcommittee on Wednesday, April 17. SB 1499 would require the Tennessee Attorney General to either pay for legal costs or itself defend discriminatory anti-transgender school policies – an obvious attempt to encourage school districts that want to deny transgender students access to the correct bathrooms and locker rooms in K-12 schools. In short, this bill would mandate that taxpayers foot the bill for schools determined to discriminate against transgender students in violation of federal civil rights law.

HB 1151, a discriminatory bill amending the state’s indecent exposure law, has passed the House and has passed first consideration in the Senate.  Though a House subcommittee amended the bill to remove some of the most harmful anti-transgender language, the bill still could put transgender and non-binary people at increased risk of harassment and entanglement with law enforcement simply for using restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity. The Senate companion, SB 1297, was similarly amended, and has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and is currently in the Senate Calendar Committee to be scheduled for a floor vote.

HB 836, a bill that would create a license to discriminate in child welfare services, passed the House by a vote of 67-22, and has been received in the Senate on second reading.  HB 836 would allow state contractors who provide taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care services to refuse to make child placements with qualified, loving families if the family doesn’t share all of the agency’s religious beliefs. SB 1304, companion bill, has been reset for the last Senate Judiciary calendar. If SB 1304 is scheduled, this will put the license to discriminate in child welfare bill one-step closer to the governor’s desk. These proposals state-licensed child-placing agencies would be allowed to disregard the best interest of children and turn away qualified Tennesseans seeking to care for a child in need. This would include LGBTQ couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced or other parents to whom the agency has a religious objection.

BREAKING: SB 364 REMOVED FROM CONSIDERATION! SB 364, a “business license to discriminate” bill, is scheduled for a hearing today, April 16, in the Senate State & Local Government Committee. The companion bill, HB 563, has already passed the House and is on second reading in the Senate. These bills would prohibit cities and state agencies from implementing policies that bar taxpayer funds from being used by businesses, organizations, contractors, and grantees to discriminate against LGBTQ people in employment policies.  

HRC is proud to join with the Tennessee Equality Project to vigorously oppose bills that seek to discriminate against LGBTQ Tennesseans and their families. Text HRCTN to 472472 or visit hrc.im/HRCTN to stop this dangerous legislation from becoming law.

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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: April 16, 2019

HRC AND LOCAL ADVOCATES LAUNCH EQUALITY ACT MONTH: Over the next several weeks HRC is joining with coalition partners and local advocates for in-district organizing events in support of the Equality Act, including phone banking, lobbying training, door-to-door canvassing and in-district meetings with Members of Congress. More from HRC.

While Congress is in recess, @HRC will be joining with state and local advocates for dozens of in-district organizing events in support of the #EqualityAct. t.co/BKZf2Ivh7t

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) April 15, 2019

“THE LGBTQ MOVEMENT STANDS ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS… NOW IT IS OUR TIME TO FIGHT FOR THEM”: In a powerful op-ed for the Advocate, Jay Brown, HRC Senior Vice President of Programs, Research and Training, (@ThisIsJayBrown) and Michael Adams, CEO of SAGE, write about the importance of caring for our LGBTQ elders. Yesterday, HRC and SAGE announced the Long-Term Care Equality Index (LEI), the first-ever assessment of care facilities serving older LGBTQ people. Read the op-ed here.

TUESDAY TWEET — “WE WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR BODY, AND YOU SHOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT IT”: Parents Stephanie and Eric Lohman spoke with CNN’s Daniella Emanuel (@DaniellaEmanue1) about raising their intersex child, Rosie. Read the full piece from CNN.

Raising an intersex child: “This is your body. …There’s nothing to be ashamed of”t.co/uLeTxC9lKc pic.twitter.com/X2BULr67ij

— CNN (@CNN) April 13, 2019

BBC’S BEN HUNTE (@BenInLDN) DIGS INTO UNCONSTITUTIONAL TRANSGENDER MILITARY BAN IN VIDEO FEATURING HRC’S CHARLOTTE CLYMER (@cmclymer): Watch the video here.

As the BBC’s @BenInLDN breaks down, Trump-Pence’s #TransMilitaryBan has little to do with health care and a lot to do with the discriminatory, disgraceful politics of this White House. We will never stop fighting until this ban is repealed. t.co/KJGO4nWFg2

— Chad Griffin (@ChadHGriffin) April 15, 2019

U.S. SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR A CASE CHALLENGING JURY DECISION SENTENCING GAY MAN TO DEATH: During the case, jurors made disparaging remarks about the man’s sexual orientation and claimed he could not mix with inmate populations. More from Washington Blade.

• Previously, the Los Angeles Times Ed Board called on the Supreme Court to hear the case. More from Los Angeles Times.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ANTI-LGBTQ BILL IN TEXAS: In a letter, they articulated their opposition to SB 17, which would create a “license to discriminate” for state-licensed professionals. Read the letter here.

HRC MARKS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH IN APRIL: Within the LGBTQ community, transgender people of color and bisexual women face especially alarming rates of sexual violence, which often begins during childhood. Read more from HRC.

.@HRC marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month by recognizing the ways in which the #LGBTQ community is uniquely and disporportionately affected by sexual violence. #SAAM t.co/ewRuP6Ssrd

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) April 12, 2019

NEW REPORTS SURFACE THAT SUSPECT, EDWARD THOMAS, ATTACKED TRANSGENDER WOMAN IN DALLAS AFTER HE WAS OFFERED $200: More from Dallas News.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.Y., ORDERED TO PAY $25,000 TO SAME-SEX COUPLE DENIED MARRIAGE LICENSE: Lambda Legal represented Dylan Toften and Thomas Hurd in the case. More from Albany Times Union.

ACLU FILES SUIT ON BEHALF OF NICOLE GARCIA AGUILAR, A TRANSGENDER MIGRANT: Aguilar was granted asylum in October 2018, but ICE has refused to release her from custody. More from CBS 4 News.

GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS

UNACCEPTABLE — BEIJING HIGH COURT REJECTS APPEAL CHALLENGING CHINA’S BAN ON LGBTQ INTERNET CONTENT: More from Gay Star News.

• Also troubling is the removal of LGBTQ content from China’s largest social media platform over the last few days. Read more here.

JAPANESE COURT HEARS FIRST ORAL ARGUMENTS CHALLENGING THE COUNTRY’S BAN ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY: More from Japan Times.

HORRIBLE — GAY MAN MURDERED IN PARIS: Identified only as Daniel in a funeral fundraising page set up by his friend Nicolas, Nicolas remembered Daniel as “very kind, funny and festive.” More from Gay Star News.

READING RAINBOW – Bookmark now to read on your lunch break!

HRC celebrates LGBTQ poets who inspire for National Poetry Month 

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Seth Meyers Rips Trump’s Excuse That His Tax Returns are Too Complicated for People to Understand: WATCH

“President Trump has been resisting calls for three years to release his tax returns, said Seth Meyers at the start of a Closer Look segment at the president’s ongoing refusal.

Meyers then played a clip of Trump droning on with excuses about why he can’t release the tax returns, adding, “He sounds like a scientist insisting on giving a TED talk despite a recent massive head wound. … He tees it up like he is about switch gears, and then just repeats himself again … It’s like if you ask somebody to marry you and they said ‘well it’s awfully soon and I’m a little afraid of commitment, but I will say this …. no.’”

“Knowing that the audit excuse is a transparent lie Trump has in the last few months moved on to a new excuse that his tax returns are too complicated for people to understand,” explained Meyers.

Meyers then played a ridiculous segment of Trump giving excuses again that the IRS is a “big, complex” company that’s “probably feet high.”

Quipped Meyers: “We need an audit to figure out what the hell you’re saying. … Why does the president of the United States aways sound like spam email asking you for your social security number?”

“Sarah Huckabee Sanders took Trump’s argument one step further,” Meyers added, “saying members of Congress were literally too dumb to understand them.”

Said Meyers: “I will concede, if Sanders is talking about the Republican members of Congress, then yes, some of them are not smart enough to understand Trump’s tax returns.”

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