TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 24, 2024

The ACLU of Tennessee has challenged a state rule governing what gender is listed on a person's driver's license, the Tennessean reports. The organization filed the lawsuit on behalf of a Monroe County transgender woman and asked the court to block the rule. In 2023, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law defining a person's sex based on "immutable" physical and genetic characteristics at birth. That same year, the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security implemented the policy that it would not change driver's license gender markers to something different than the sex given on a person's original birth certificate. In addition to arguing that the policy discriminates, the ACLU says the department did not go through the appropriate procedures required for creating a new rule under state law.