Bill would revise Tennessee’s decades-old law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work
Tennessee state Sen. Page Walley KIMBERLEE KRUESI | Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee would no longer be the only U.S.
state to impose a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” on anyone convicted of engaging in sex work while living with HIV under a proposal that advanced Jan.
23 in the Tennessee legislature. The controversial statute still on the books is being challenged in federal court by LGBTQ and civil rights advocates.
They argue that the law stems from the decades-old AIDS scare and discriminates against HIV-positive people. The U.S. Department of Justice has also weighed in on the decades-old law after completing an investigation in December, saying that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and called on the state to repeal the measure.
