Tennessee Sen Mae Beavers attempted to re-introduce a measure which would have required schools to restrict bathroom and locker room based on sex at birth. She even had a proposed an amendment to the bill which she thought would allow "accommodations" for transgender and intersex students.

Sen Beavers has announced that she is exploring a run for governor in 2018.

It turned out, however, that nobody on the Senate Education Committee wanted to hear it. The bill failed to receive a motion from any member of the committee.

The president's reversal of the Obama administration's overreaching cultural assault brings the issue back where it belongs: our local communities. Unneeded legislation would only result in invasive litigation placing our school bathroom policies in the hands of federal judges rather than our friends and neighbors.

--Republican Senate Speaker Randy McNally

I'm just glad that it's done with. And I think that our legislators are learning more and more that discrimination has a high cost, both monetarily and politically.

--Henry Seaton, ACLU

I'm feeling that a lot of them, they didn't even have the backbone that we're trying to stand up to protect our children, our grandchildren, our daughters, our wives, sisters and such, and it didn't even get a motion to get a fair hearing.

--Rep. Mark Pody (R-Lebanon), the bill's original sponsor

You never say that until the final two gavels of the session, but we’re in a very good posture, and we’re pleased. But we have several others bills in the slate of hate to watch.

--Chris Sanders, Tennessee Equality Network