CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's largest city passed a law Monday allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, which the governor had called a threat to public safety and warned that the General Assembly may step in.
The Charlotte City Council voted 7-4 to expand protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, making it the latest frontier in a national debate on how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender customers. One of the revisions to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance allows people to choose restrooms corresponding to the gender with which they identify.
"I'm pleased that Charlotte has sent a signal that we will treat people with dignity and respect, even when we disagree," Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said moments after the vote.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory — a former mayor of Charlotte, one of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. according to census figures — said in an email Sunday that changing the policy on restrooms could "create major public safety issues."
"Also, this action of allowing a person with male anatomy, for example, to use a female restroom or locker room will most likely cause immediate State legislative intervention which I would support as governor," he wrote in the email to two Council members.
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7 comments:
We have had this state wide in Maryland for a couple years. Have there been any problems?
12:49 If there were you wouldn't hear about it because of the Democratically controlled MSM. Yes it is Democratically controlled.
This law is in Maryland now? So as a male, if I'm feeling a little effeminate today, I'm okay to use the female bathroom in a public building?
We heard about all the terrible crimes that would happen when this was debated in Maryland. Just asking have any of those scenarios happened? Been the law here for some years.
Something will happen if not already. This is the most ridiculous garbage.
I was in a store a few weeks ago and started walking in the women's rest room by mistake, at least I think it was a mistake. Anyway, a cashier yelled to me so I did not make the mistake. Maybe I should sue as maybe my intention was to use the women's rest room, but she embarrassed me in public by pointing out that I was going into the wrong one - that is what she assumed. Now I will never know and the emotional stress of not knowing which room I was supposed to use is unbearable. I need to find my safe place.
Moral decline. Just because it's made legal doesn't make it right.
Well, isn't that just peachy?
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