What the Tennessee legislature did this week

Two of the biggest bills pending in the legislature moved closer to becoming law this week.

🩺 The House signed off on a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. It now goes to Gov. Bill Lee's desk.

• Major medical associations support gender-affirming care for minors, such as puberty blockers or hormones.

🏳️‍🌈 A bill regulating some drag shows easily passed in the House. It is slightly different from the Senate's version, which passed earlier this month.

• The Senate will now get an opportunity to vote on accepting the House version, per the Tennessean.

✂ An effort to cut the Metro Council's size cleared a Senate committee.

• The bill is still working its way through committees in both chambers and is scheduled to be considered by another House panel next week.