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 |  Subject: Absurd: HB2 creates 'state-sponsored discrimination' against transgender people -- Attorney General  Mon May 09, 2016 8:16 pm | |
| Attorney General Loretta Lynch says North Carolina's law restricting restroom access for transgender people amounts to "state-sponsored discrimination."
Lynch spoke during a news conference Monday announcing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state and against Gov. Pat McCrory. She says the law only serves to "harm innocent Americans."
The Justice Department lawsuit says the law has caused transgender people to suffer "emotional harm, mental anguish, distress, humiliation, and indignity." It seeks an order that would prevent the law's enforcement.
WEB EXTRA: Click here to read the DOJ's lawsuit against North Carolina
Lynch spoke directly to residents of her native state, saying they have been falsely told by North Carolina proponents that the law protects vulnerable people from harm in bathrooms.
"Instead, what this law does, is inflict further indignity on a population that has already suffered far more than its fair share," she said. "This law provides no benefit to society, and all it does it is harm innocent Americans."
Lynch likened her agency's involvement in the North Carolina law to the shifting expansion of civil rights that scrapped legal racial segregation and prohibitions against gay marriage.
"This is about the dignity and the respect that we accord our fellow citizens," Lynch said. "It's about the founding ideals that have led this country, haltingly but inexorably in the direction of fairness, inclusion and equality for all Americans."
"Governor McCrory is appropriately seeking legal certainty to a complex issue impacting employers and students throughout the country," said Governor McCrory's communications director Josh Ellis Monday night. "In contrast, the Attorney General is using divisive rhetoric to advance the Obama administration's strategy of making laws that bypass the constitutional authority of Congress and our courts."
The DOJ lawsuit was filed Monday just hours after Gov. Pat McCrory filed his own lawsuit over the law. McCrory wants the sweeping law, which limits protections for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people, kept in place.
"Our nation is dealing with a very new, complex and emotional issue," McCrory said Monday afternoon. The United States Department of Justice challenged House Bill 2 last week.
"I think it's time for the U.S. Congress to bring clarity to the national anti-discrimination policies under title VII and title IX," the governor said.
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/31924766/watch-live-attorney-general-loretta-lynch-responds-to-nc-lawsuit-over-hb2-deadline
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