Tennessee: ACLU, Lambda Legal sue over anti-Trans athlete bill
Reuters reported November 4 on the lawsuit filed by civil rights groups against Tennessee for its laws restricting Transgender athletes' participation in school sports. The suit was filed by Lambda Legal and the ACLU after Gov. Bill Lee signed SB 280, a bill that requires student athletes in public middle and high schools to play on teams that "match" the sex listed on their birth certificates. Supporters of the bill continue to frame it as a matter of protecting female athletes from unfair competition, but the suit was filed on behalf of a Trans boy who wants to compete on his school's boys' golf team. Critics of the bill say its real purpose is to "energize" social conservatives.

Washington, DC: Labor Dept. may rescind Trump religious exemptions
NBC reported on November 8 that the US Labor Department has announced a proposal to rescind the Trump administration's expansion of religious exemptions as they apply to anti-discrimination laws for federal contractors. The Trump administration had justified the expansion as a way to give religious organizations full participation in federal contracting. LGBT advocacy groups said it would lead to discrimination. Exemptions will still exist if the expansion is rescinded, but they would be more narrow, about as much as they were during the Obama administration.