It’s all because of House Bill Two. The state law requires people to use the restroom according to their biological sex listed on their birth certificate in government buildings, schools, and universities.
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Months later, the legislature voted only to change a portion of HB2 that stripped workers of the right to sue their employers for wrongful termination.
Cooper said Monday that McCrory should call a special session Monday to repeal the law, and blasted the governor for not showing leadership. In fact, more than 135 million Americans – or 42 percent of the US population – live in cities with non-discrimination ordinances like Charlotte. Repealing that ordinance could lead to the end of HB2, but it would also leave gay, lesbian and transgender individuals with no protection against discrimination in places of public accommodation. “Hundreds of other cities across the nation already had in place a similar ordinance to Charlotte’s”.
Last week, the NCAA and ACC joined more than 200 major business leaders in calling for full repeal of HB2.
In a column published Sunday by The Charlotte Observer, Ned Curran encourages the council to take up Republican Gov. That response was understandable at first, given that most of the public knew little about transgender people and that using the bathroom of one’s gender is, as the governor likes to say, “common sense”. “And, like the majority of North Carolinians and businesses across the state, we believe that’s exactly what they must do”.
The press conference was held the same week the NCAA and the Atlantic Coast Conference announced they were pulling 15 college sports title events from the state because of the law. The NBA pulled its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte. The game is played in December. Pat McCrory will suffer at the polls in November.
Let’s be clear: House and Senate leaders have given zero indication they want Charlotte to have those LGBT protections, now or at any point. “Can we please get it back?'”
North Carolina state Sens. But they said House Bill 2 wouldn’t have been needed if Charlotte hadn’t first overreached. The North Carolina governor cited costs of litigation, noting that his state is also the defendant in a lawsuit filed against him by the Dept. of Justice on similar grounds.
“When we feel these values are threatened we have an obligation to ask how do we respond”, Carter said. “Let’s not miss this opportunity to repeal HB2”. Though to some on the city council “deal” isn’t the right word.
He said the Chamber’s political pressure should be on Governor McCrory.
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In a statement, Human Rights Campaign executive JoDee Winterhof called the proposed exchange the “same cheap trick the North Carolina General Assembly has attempted all along”. “This arrangement would create problems, not solve them”. This is nothing but a exhausted tactic already used once by Governor McCrory and his allies back in May. We piled on and added to it.
