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| Subject: Liberal groups sue North Carolina over transgender bathroom law Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:50 pm | |
| Gay rights advocates advanced a fight in one state on Monday, just as they scored a victory in another.
The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and Equality North Carolina sued that state over a measure that they described in the suit as “explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law,” while Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) vetoed a hard-fought bill that gay rights advocates described in the same language.
At issue in North Carolina is a measure introduced, voted on and signed into law in a single day last week overriding a recently passed Charlotte city ordinance expanding civil rights protections on the basis of marital status, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression and allowing transgender people to use bathrooms aligned with their gender identity.
Proponents of the new law were particularly vocal about their opposition to the transgender bathroom rights granted by that city measure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/03/28/liberal-groups-sue-north-carolina-over-transgender-bathroom-law/ |
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