New York Magazine has reported that the NCAA is relocating seven upcoming championship basketball games from North Carolina due to the state’s controversial “transgender bathroom bill”, also known as HB2. As the fallout thickened from the NCAA decision to pull from North Carolina all seven championship events scheduled in the state in the 2016-17 academic year, Gov.
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“Current North Carolina state laws make it challenging to guarantee the host communities can help deliver on that commitment if NCAA events remained in the state”, the NCAA said in a statement.
Gov. Pat McCrory says the NCAA failed to show North Carolina respect when it moved championships and tournament games out of the state because of a law that governs which bathrooms transgender people must use.
Barringer said Tuesday that with the NCAA decision to move events from North Carolina there have been too many “unintended effects” of HB 2.
In publicizing its decision, the NCAA alleged in a statement, “North Carolina law provides legal protections for government officials to refuse services to the [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] community”.
Five states plus numerous cities prohibit travel to North Carolina for public employees and representatives of public institutions, which could include student-athletes and campus athletics staff. I wish the NCAA was this concerned about the women who were raped at Baylor.
“The NCAA would bode well to stop their political peacocking and care more about the safety and privacy of athletes across the nation, far more than their profit line”, she told CNN-affiliate WNCN. The CIAA affirmed its intention to keep its basketball tournament in Charlotte shortly after HB2 became law.
For the first time, a Republican state lawmaker who backed House Bill 2 says it’s time to consider repealing it.
Division III men’s and women’s soccer championship in Greensboro, Dec. 2-3.
But the NCAA’s actions are unique because of the number of events and the repeated publicity it was scheduled to bring to North Carolina.
“We have viewed the information provided by the NCAA today regarding the process by which replacement sites will be selected for 2016-17 championships and are determining, with our partners, if we have the availability to host any of these championships”, GCSC director of marketing and communications Bruce Wimbish said in an email. HB2, which was passed in March, declares that state law overrides all local ordinances concerning wages, employment and public accommodations. “If you are unwilling to have women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, how do you have a women’s team?”
“Fairness and inclusion are right at the heart of what the NCAA does and what universities do”, NCAA President Mark Emmert said on “CBS This Morning”.
2017 Division I Women’s Golf Championships, regional (Greenville), May 8-10.
NCAA President Mark Emmert spearheaded the removal of championship events from North Carolina. When the National Basketball Association from North Carolina, McCrory responded in a statement, saying, “American families should be on notice that the selective corporate elite are imposing their political will on communities in which they do business, thus bypassing the democratic and legal process”.
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Also in early 2017, the softball championships come to Chapel Hill, the tennis championships will be decided in Cary and the ACC baseball tournament will return to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
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