Key bills affecting Tennessee's LGBTQ community continue to move the week of March 7. Take action with these campaigns and events. We will continue to add campaigns and events as available over the coming days.
MARCH 7 at 6:30 p.m. Central Time
*Zoom phone bank against discrimination. Bring your phones; we supply the scripts and numbers. Facebook event with Zoom link located here.
MARCH 8
1. HB2835, the attack on gender-affirming care for trans youth is back in the House Health Subcommittee. HB2451, which represents itself as a parental bill of rights, is also up in the same subcommittee. Noon Central Time. Note: These bills are far down on the calendar and the subcommittee may not get to them.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the House Health Subcommittee.
*Attend the subcommittee meeting. Facebook event link is here.
2. HB2691, which allows people to change the gender marker on their birth certificate, is also on the House Health Subcommittee calendar, along with the items in the entry above. Noon Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the House Health Subcommittee.
*Attend the subcommittee meeting. Facebook event link is here.
*Make calls for the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
3. HB2316, which bans transgender college student athletes, is back before the House Higher Education Subcommittee. Noon Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the House Higher Education Subcommittee.
*Attend the committee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
*Make calls against the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
4. HB800, which bans LGBTQ materials in our public schools, is up for a vote in House Finance. 3:00 p.m. Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the House Finance Committee.
*Attend the committee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
5. HB2633, which allows school personnel to disregard student pronouns, is back before the House K-12 Subcommittee. 4:30 p.m. Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the House K-12 Subcommittee.
*Attend the subcommittee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
*Make calls against the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
6. SB2440/HB2569, which would would have many negative effects such as gutting local government programs for women and minority contracting, is up before Senate and House committees on the same day.
MARCH 9
1. SB2360, which represents itself as a parental bill of rights, is up in the Senate Education Committee. 1:00 p.m. Central Time in Senate Hearing Room 1 of the Cordell Hull Building.
2.HB233, which is a caption bill that will carry anti-marriage equality language, is up for a vote in the House Children & Family Affairs Subcommittee. 2:00 p.m. Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send a message to the subcommittee.
*Attend the subcommittee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
*Make calls against the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
3. SB2696, the attack on gender-affirming care for trans youth, is back in the Senate Health & Welfare Committee. 3:00 p.m. Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the Senate Health & Welfare Committee.
*Attend the committee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
*Make calls against the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
4. HB1944, which attempts to label school library materials as obscenity, is before the House Criminal Justice Committee. 3:30 p.m. Central Time.
*Use this easy form to send an email to the members of the Criminal Justice Committee.
*Attend the committee meeting. Facebook event is linked here.
*Make calls against the bill using the scripts and office numbers linked here.
MARCH 10 at 4:30 p.m. Central Time
Happy Hour Advocacy Social at Alchemy in Memphis. Facebook event is linked here.
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