TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Sep 27, 2024

U.S. District Judge William Campbell has dismissed a legal challenge to Tennessee’s “bathroom law,” leaving in place rules that require public schools to bar transgender students from the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice, the Tennessee Lookout reports. The decision upholds the “Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act,” signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee in 2021, which requires schools to offer “reasonable accommodation” to transgender students and school staff, but excludes access to multi-use restrooms or changing facilities unless students and staff make formal requests for accommodation. The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organization that filed the suit, has not yet announced plans with regard to appealing the ruling.