However, Governor Pat McCrory warned the City Council against passing the protections and, after the vote, he was joined by state House lawmakers in saying that they would find a legislative solution to the City Council’s actions.
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McCrory signed the bill without a formal ceremony, issuing a news release around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Before the bill passed, Caitlyn Jenner, 66, encouraged her fans to tell the governor to veto the legislation. ESPN, which had been considering North Carolina for the summer X games, said in a statement Friday: “At ESPN, we embrace diversity and inclusion and will evaluate all of our options as we seek a new city for the X Games”.
In 2011 Tennessee lawmakers did something similar to what has happened in North Carolina, though much narrower in application, when they voided a Nashville ordinance that protected LGBTs.
“Corporate leaders are speaking out against bills that could allow individuals and businesses to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and other minorities – versions of which are actively being considered in states across the country”, the companies said.
And American Airlines said in a statement. Numerous businesses also expressed concern over the law on Thursday.
The issue won’t likely go away as North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general, Roy Cooper, tries to unseat McCrory in November.
Howard said the new law was not meant to hurt anybody, and noted, accurately, that under the new law, people who have had gender reassignment surgery and have also changed their birth certificate to match their gender identity can use the corresponding bathroom.
Facebook, Google and Apple each run massive data-processing complexes in western North Carolina.
IBM is opposed to discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.
The law leaves the state with no anti-discrimination protections for the LGBT community, and created an immediate backlash from the national business community. Members of the state’s business community pulled no punches, with several companies that do business in North Carolina denouncing the law as discriminatory.
Two days after the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved the measure, which was quickly signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory, companies are lining up in opposition.
Officials said the arrests were made after the five protesters, who chained themselves to one another in the middle of the street, refused to disperse. The NCAA have said they are placing a watchful eye on the situation.
Those charged are 30-year-old Jade Brooks of Durham; 28-year-old Salma Mirza of Durham; 20-year-old Ngoe Tran of Durham; 27-year-old Jessica Jude of Durham; and 32-year-old Noah Rubin-Blose of Hillsborough.
The governor signed legislation on Wednesday that prevents local governments enacting measures to protect people from gender identity discrimination.
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