The first-of-its-kind law requires businesses to post signs about trans-friendly bathrooms and took effect July 1. It was signed by Gov. Bill Lee in May.
Middle District of Tennessee Judge Aleta A. Trauger issued the ruling Friday granting a temporary injunction against enforcing the law.
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein, Trauger wrote in her 31-page order. That rule is not founded simply on an abstract love of unfettered and uncompelled speech, Trauger wrote. The First Amendment holds its privileged place in our constitutional system because, whenever the Federal Government or a State prevents individuals from saying what they think on important matters or compels them to voice ideas with which they disagree, it undermines both our d
Tennessee s anti-trans restroom law blocked by federal judge
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Not welcome : Advocates slam Tennessee law requiring transgender bathroom signs
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Some observers have objected to a law the Tennessee General Assembly passed that disallowed indoctrinating Tennessee K-12 students with pro-Marxist curricula that teaches all white people are all inherently racist. Although this law never banned Critical Race Theory (CRT) by name, critics have asserted the law’s disallowed tenants amounted to such.
These critics have decried that such a law is unpatriotic and, even un-American. Perhaps, to get past misleading rhetoric to the truth, these assertions merit examination.
What is CRT? First, it is not the teaching of African-American history. Some dishonest apologists maintain CRT benignly examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism. Additionally, for many of the uninformed, CRT is, apparently, simply a vague assertion of racism, trivially cloaked in academic jargon. Alternatively, for some African-American scholars, it is a politically correct and conveniently acceptable bl