On Monday, the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), another collegiate sporting organization that hosts many events in North Carolina, said its council of presidents was set to discuss HB2 at a previously scheduled meeting later this week.
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The law known as HB2 requires transgender people to use restrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. Pat McCrory earlier this year. Such prohibitions can last for quite some time: The NCAA’s ban on SC hosting neutral-site championships for flying the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds lasted from 2001 until it came down last summer.
First it was the NBA All-Star Game.
Supporters of the law say it was created to keep men or boys from sharing school or government building restrooms or locker rooms with girls. “Today’s decision is one of principle, and while this decision is the right one, we recognize there will be individuals and communities that are supportive of our values as well as our championship sites that will be negatively affected”. A spokesman with McCrory’s office couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Monday evening, but a spokeswoman with the state Republican party blasted the NCAA’s decision in a statement, saying it is “so absurd it’s nearly comical”. “It was the NCAA’s to decide, and obviously they have many things to try to compute, and I think at the end of the day they regarded this as a fairness and equal rights, equal protection kind of issue”.
Entertainers like Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Ringo Starr have canceled plans to play in North Carolina. “That’s where our president’s laid their bed so to speak, and I think we landed in the right place”. It was unclear on Wednesday where the football championship and other league events would be played.
On a personal note, its time for this bill to be repealed as its counter to basic human rights, said Swofford, whose league office is located in North Carolina.
Republican State Senator Tamara Barringer issued a statement Tuesday following the NCAA’s decision to pull seven college championships from North Carolina. That comes as it reviews responses to questionnaires required of prospective site hosts on how they would comply with the NCAA’s anti-discrimination measure. The Monday action was related to House Bill 2, which McCrory signed into law.
“The protection and safety and security of women and girls in North Carolina is our utmost importance”, he declared, while the state Republican Party spokeswoman said that under the logic of the federal mandate, “colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and hotel rooms”.
“For the sports event industry in North Carolina, this week has been unprecedented and historically bad, probably the worst ever in terms of lost business and damage to our brand”, Scott Dupree, executive director of the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance, said in a statement.
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In addition to the recent action from the ACC and NCAA, the National Basketball Association announced in July it was moving next year’s All-Star Game away from Charlotte in response to North Carolina’s HB2 law.
