Big Money: How The World’s First Trans Billionaire Could Impact Tennessee’s Fight To Protect Children

The Senate passes a bill banning minors from having sex with others. Tennessee Legislative, Leftist Groups in the State have promised legal action against the implementation of the proposed law. This law protects children from irreversible and life-altering procedures. 

Gender activists used a similar strategy in other states. Judges blocked laws protecting children. Arkansas And Alabama. With laws being passed by the Tennessee legislature to ban gender-related procedures for children (HB/SB 1), children’s exposures to explicit performances (HB9/SB 3), as well as not allowing state funds to be used to fund gender surgery through TennCare, leftist groups such the ACLU Lambda Legal and Tennessee are already planning legal action. 

Groups like the ACLU-TN receive funding in part from Jennifer Pritzker (born James), an Illinois-based investor who has been supporting transgender rights since childhood. It is known To financially support the transgender community Through American medical, academic and legal institutions.

Pritzker did not publicly condemn the recent gender-related legislation. However, the billionaire supported groups opposed to the law and threatened monetary retribution in past years if Tennessee passed legislation that was not deemed appropriate. “inclusive.” 

What makes a Chicagoan such a good dog fighter in Tennessee? Two reasons are the most important. Pritzker was a Clarksville resident. The state also houses the Pritzker Family Trust, which is owned by the billionaire cousin of Illinois Governor. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL). Could be moved.

Pritzker’s support for the ACLU-TN is perhaps the most clear link. Pritzker’s Tawani Foundation donated six-figure sums in 2021, 2022 to the Tawani Foundation.

Pritzker made the first announcement in July 2021, when he announced a $101,000 donation to the ACLU of Tennessee through the Tawani Foundation. “fight Tennessee’s anti-transgender laws in court.” 

“Anti-LGBTQ laws harm the economic well-being of the state, while respect for diversity and inclusion attract our nation’s best and brightest,” Pritzker Claim. “I stand ready to continue the good fight as necessary, including conferring directly with Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee Legislature to find truly humane and just solutions to the issues raised by transgender equality.”

Pritzker’s donation was followed by this donation Say it The state was not being “inclusive” The former Republican governor threatened to take the assets belonging to the private family trust out of the state and threatens to do so. According to reports, Bill Haslam had worked hard to bring the state. Tennessee passed a law banning males from participating as women’s athletes if they identify themselves as female. 

Despite threats, Lee signed a number of Republican-backed transgender legislations in May 2021, and Pritzker in the spring 2022. gave $4,300 Lee‘s re-election campaign. 

Pritzker supported the ACLU-TN to legal and educational purposes within the Volunteer State. The Tawani Foundation will be established in 2022. gave The group $164,205 was for the purpose “legal work in TN to advance and defend justice for transgender individuals.”

For more information on how money is distributed to the ACLU-TN but not all of it, The Daily Wire Wire reached to the Tawani Foundation. Goes towards The group’s TRANScend Tennessee project “educational initiatives.” 

“The TRANScend Tennessee program leverages public education, community outreach and support, and political engagement to help change the overall narrative about trans people in Tennessee from a negative, distanced one to a positive, empathetic one,” According to the website of the program. 

Program’s stated purpose is to prevent “anti-trans legislation and rhetoric” From being part of Tennessee’s public policies. It has also Vowed Take “immediate legal action against proposed restrictions on their health care currently being considered by the state legislature.”

Lucas Cameron-Vaugn (ACLU-TN staff attorney) claimed that gender-related procedures were used on children as part of his ACLU-TN case. “necessary” And “effective.”

“Politicians are risking the lives of young people by forcing their way into family decision-making, a fundamental right which has traditionally been protected against government intrusion. Gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth is safe, effective, and necessary care. ACLU-TN stands ready to defend the freedom of families to make these decisions for their children. Should this dangerous legislation pass, we will see the state in court,” Cameron-Vaugn claimed. 

The Tawani Foundation has also given $75,000 to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2022. Grant This was classified as falling under the “gender and human sexuality” category. 

Vanderbilt’s gender clinic has been under fire for performing mastectomies to teenage girls and providing hormone therapy to children. The Daily Wire tried to reach the Tawani Foundation regarding the grant, but was not able to get a response. 

The Tawani Foundation also has $12,500 in 2022 as beneficiaries Athlete Ally “transgender athlete research project,” $25,000 for trans “non-binary” Youth campsTwo grants totaling $100,000 were made to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, a group that has received numerous awards. The actions taken by Gov. Lee “dangerous”), and $15,000 to the

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