FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 18, 2025
CONTACT:
Wes Sanders Han-Burgess
Director of Communications, Georgia Equality
[email protected]
Dorrie Toney
Director of Communications, ACLU of Georgia
[email protected]
ATLANTA - Today, the U. S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee’s law denying healthcare to transgender youth to stand. Georgia Equality and ACLU of Georgia will convene a Virtual Press Conference to break down the court’s decision, its impact in Georgia and to respond to questions.
WHAT
Virtual Press Conference with a panel of advocates and legal experts who will address the decision's outcome, its implication, and impacts.
WHO
Jeff Graham, Georgia Equality’s Executive Director
Cory Isaacson, ACLU of Georgia’s Legal Director
WHERE
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89200232994?pwd=ehkfAgHAi6qgnLicqjn2Eybk0R9QPz.1
(Link distributed to press only)
WHEN
June 18, 2025, 2pm
The Zoom link is for members of the press only. The press conference will also be streamed live on youtube.com/@georgiaequality
BACKGROUND
Samantha and Brian Williams of Nashville, TN and their 15-year-old transgender daughter are challenging a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender people under 18. Tennessee is home to over 3,000 transgender adolescents and the health care banned by this law is supported by the entire mainstream of the medical community.
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Founded in 1995, Georgia Equality is the state’s largest advocacy organization working to advance fairness safety and opportunity for Georgia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied communities.
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