A Tennessee County Court Is Officially Promoting Pride Month By Overseeing A Mass Name Change For LGBTQ Adults.
Image Credit: Andra Hedrick for Probate Judge Division 7 / Facebook & circuitclerk.nashville.gov
The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –
A Tennessee County Court is officially promoting Pride Month.
Davidson County Probate Judge Andra Hedrick of the Seventh Circuit Court presides over all matters filed in the Probate Court including adult and minor name changes, and “in observance of Pride Month” will be overseeing a mass name change for LGBTQ adults.
According to their website, a legal name change docket on June 28th at 1:30 PM has been scheduled specifically in recognition of Pride Month and is open to adults residing in Davidson County.
The name change petition and instructions from the court has the Pride Flag colors prominently displayed at the top of the first page.
Gender dysphoric individuals, or those who do not wish to conform to the gender they were born with, often opt to legally change their names in order to more closely align with their imagined gender as part of their LGBTQ journey.
In filling out the petition, LGBTQ adults wanting to change their given names must affirm that they have not been convicted of first or second degree murder, or any offense which placed them on the Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender list. In addition, they also must swear, affirm, and make oath before a notary public or the Probate Court Clerk that the intent of the legal name is not to defraud or mislead, that it will not cause injury to any individual or compromise public safety, and that it is being sought in good faith.
Once granted, those changing their names may then apply for a new state driver’s license in the new name, showing the court order as the reason for the change.
However, a new law that went into effect last July restricts the changing of gender markers on official identification documents such as driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
Carried by Representative Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood-District 61) and Senator Kerry Roberts (R-Springfield-District 23), the legislation provides a legal definition of “sex” to be used in all state codes and statutes. It defines “sex” as “a person’s immutable biological sex” and makes this definition the one to be used on all government-issued documents within the state.
Before 2023, those undergoing gender reassignment surgery were legally allowed to update gender markers on state-issued IDs by providing proof of the surgery.
About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.
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We should probably setup bars for alcoholics too while we’re at it.
Davidson County Probate Judge Andra Hedrick of the Seventh Circuit Court. For the month of Humility [pride]. Davidson County REPROBATE Judge Andra Hedrick of the Seventh Circuit Court has announced a name change. Her title.
In God we trust nongovernment or man.
Have a blessed.
Le 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
2Jo 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
This is what’s wrong with the country today, but God is about to straighten it out.
Yup, one of many of lucifer’s dimmercrap “judges”.
Overeducated and indoctrinated idiots.
Not over educated, just indoctrinated. No moral compass
This should not be legal, promoting one sex/gender/ideology etc over another. Protest.
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Die mad