Sign posted at Bull McCabes Irish Pub on May 10, 2016 in Durham, North Carolina.
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James Esseks, an ACLU lawyer on the team representing three transgender residents, said the judge’s order means the case will be pushed back from its November trial date until May 2017.
A lawyer says that a trial over a North Carolina law governing transgender restroom access is being pushed back by several months. The states also argue the North Carolina proceedings should be halted temporarily because of that ruling and a Virginia case that the U.S. Supreme Court may hear.
North Carolina’s so-called H.B.
Schroeder also noted that existing state laws that prohibit people from indecently exposing themselves to others or peeping into or entering a bathroom designated for someone of the opposite sex are “straightforward and uncontroversial”.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and attorney generals from Arkansas, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, Utah and the governors of Kentucky and MS filed a brief in federal court on August 31 to block a U.S. Justice Department challenge to North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (HB2).
Judge Thomas D. Schroeder of Federal District Court partly granted apreliminary injunction for three transgender plaintiffs, saying they have a strong chance of proving their arguments that H.B. Therefore, he said, his injunction simply returns to the pre-HB2 scheme until the court can rule whether Title IX’s prohibition on discrimination based on “sex” includes “gender identity”. They have asked an appeals court to expand that ruling to all transgender people in the state, not just those involved in the lawsuit.
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