The law signed by Republican Gov. Bill Haslam last week took effect immediately, sending counselors and advocates scrambling to sort through its implications. So far, it hasn't led to the kind of economic backlash that hit North Carolina in response to a law requiring transgender people to use only the bathroom of the gender on their birth certificates.
Tennessee's law allows counselors to refuse to treat people as long as they refer patients to someone else.
The measure conflicts with the American Counseling Association's code of ethics. The ACA says no other state has passed such a law.
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