Tennessee’s Republicans seem obsessed with using the power of government to bully transgender folks. It has to stop.

Here we go again. A terrible thing has happened to a Tennessee woman, because of Tennessee’s Republican policies. 

The nation heartbreakingly watched recently as media outlets covered the brutal kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher in Memphis. Eliza was kidnapped off the street at 4:30 a.m. during a marathon training run. 

Recently, we’ve learned that the serial monster arrested for the crime kidnapped and raped another woman in November of 2021, but wasn’t caught because nobody bothered to run the DNA. They already had his DNA on file from his first felony kidnapping back in 2000.

Laura Brown is Tennessee born, raised and educated. The 34-year-old chief marketing officer grew up in Brentwood and has degrees from the University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Vanderbilt University. She now lives in East Nashville.

But not for much longer.

“I can’t stay here,” she said. “I’m sick and heartbroken over it.”