Two Republican lawmakers want to strictly define what it means to be a mother, father, husband or wife in Tennessee.
They have filed a bill to establish legal clarity and define the terms based on biology, a move they say is necessary to save the state money and time in courts where the words are legally ambiguous.
Legislation filed in both the state House and Senate say those four terms should be "given their natural and ordinary meaning" based on "biological distinctions between women and men." The bills come after a civil court case in Knoxville in which gender roles in state law became an issue for two same-sex parents trying to determine child custody.
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