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Monday, April 04, 2016

North Carolina's Bathroom Wars

The North Carolina legislature is under immense scrutiny for overruling a Charlotte city ordinance that, come April 1, would have forced businesses to give transgender people special admission privileges in selecting dressing and restroom facilities. Talk about an April Fools' joke.

Predictably, the Leftmedia’s bias is showing. According to CBS News, “The law Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed last week requires people to use multi-stall bathrooms that match their birth certificates at state agencies, schools and universities, even if that means forcing transgender people with heavy beards to use women’s rooms and putting people with feminine appearances in men’s rooms.” Quite frankly, this isn’t about placating the demands of “transgender people with heavy beards” or “people with feminine appearances.” It’s about protecting the wellbeing of otherwise healthy children. Besides, the law doesn’t say a man who undergoes surgery to remove his manhood can’t change his birth certificate.

That America is even having this debate is absurd, but even more fatuous is the angst it’s giving so-called LGBT pacifiers.

We begin with North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, who announced he intends not to honor the law and, in fact, to refuse to defend it against any challenge. According to Cooper, “Not only is this new law a national embarrassment, it will set North Carolina’s economy back if we don’t repeal it.”

That prompted Gov. McCrory to fire back, “When you are the state’s lawyer, you are a lawyer first and a politician second.."

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1 comment:

Steve said...

So, why have a separate NBA and WNBA if you need to offer trans bathrooms? Just have one big happy LGBTXYZNBA!

Wow, I can visualize that tournament now... and the stands are totally empty!