Kimberlee Kruesi, Author at Valley News

Colin Goodbred, a 22-year-old transgender student, poses on the campus of Dartmouth College, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Hanover, N.H. Goodbred, who was raised in the Nashville suburbs, says the bevy of new laws in Tennessee could keep him from ever calling the state home again. Conservative lawmakers nationwide introduced a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills this year, but no state's political leaders have gone further than Tennessee in enacting new laws targeting transgender people. (AP...

Dartmouth student weighs return home to state at forefront of anti-trans laws

by Jonathan Mattise Associated Press, Kimberlee Kruesi Associated Press, and Lindsay Whitehurst Associated PressMay 23, 2021

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Conservative lawmakers nationwide introduced a flurry of anti-LGBTQ bills this year, but no state’s political leaders have gone further than Tennessee in enacting new laws targeting transgender people.Lawmakers passed and Republican…