Tennessee lawmakers are deliberating a bill that would define male and female in state law based on a person’s biological sex at birth.
The proposed law would require government-issued IDs to “accurately reflect” the sex marker of a person’s original birth certificate.
Tennessee Senate Bill 1440 would create a new subsection in the state’s legal code to clearly define a person’s “immutable” biological sex determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth.
The bill also proposes to amend a section of the state’s legal code relating to the education system to align the definition with the proposed new subsection….