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TENNSEE ERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BILL
Nashville, Tennsee – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn – nmns the Tennsee Senate for passg SB 1440, a bill that attempts to discrimate agast LGBTQ+ Tennseans by difyg “sex” as “a person’s immutable blogil sex as termed by anatomy and geics existg at the time of birth and evince of a person’s blogil sex” throughout state . The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, sgle parents, and relig mori have faced problems tryg to adopt or foster children the US bee some agenci will only place kids wh heterosexual parents of a particular fah – a discrimatory practice.
DeSantis thorized the new law on the same day that he signed bills that make a felony for doctors to prcribe genr-affirmg re to trans mors and expand the state’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law. The two-year-old statute ially banned discsns of LGBTQ inti K-3 classrooms, but the 2023 amendments extend the “Don’t Say Gay” embargo until the end of the eighth gra.
The ernor has hted at further actns to punish Disney for s cricism of the “Don’t Say Gay” law as the pany su DeSantis’ admistratn urt for retaliatn. ) In 2023, Sanrs also signed a “Don’t Say Gay” bill banng LGBTQ tn through the fifth gra and a bill barrg trans stunts om g the rrect bathrooms schools. The famo "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would have barred the teachg of "anythg other than heterosexualy, " failed 2012 and 2013.