The fight, just months before McCrory faces a tough re-election battle, centers around a Justice Department directive that says not allowing transgender people to use facilities matching their gender identity broke the law and puts at least $1.4 billion in education funding at risk.
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Itzhak Perlman has joined a burgeoning protest against “House Bill 2”, a law in the USA state of North Carolina that has been widely criticised as discriminatory against transgender people by cancelling a planned performance with the North Carolina Symphony tonight.
The North Carolina Symphony has released a statement contending, “The North Carolina Symphony welcomes all people with our hearts and minds open, and we are honored to share our music-making with everyone”.
Perlman canceled his May 18 performance in Raleigh in a Facebook post on Tuesday. North Carolina contends the new law doesn’t discriminate against transgender individuals nor does it call to treat transgender employees differently.
Cooper, the state attorney general, opposes the law and said McCrory poured more fuel on the fire with litigation.
“I couldn’t agree more and will look forward to returning to North Carolina when this discriminatory law is repealed”, said Perlman, who performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
In response to Maroon 5’s cancellation, a spokesperson for North Carolina governor Pat McCrory said: “Hundreds of concerts have been successfully performed across North Carolina, including Beyoncé, over the past few weeks since the law passed”. “I felt on the one hand that this law was discriminatory and that it would affect people that don’t deserve to be affected that way”.
Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and the rock group Boston are among other musical performers who have canceled their shows due to the law.
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Failing to consider the experiences of transgender people is a “brand of ignorance (that) deliberately shuts out the perspective of an already marginalized community”, John wrote. “It’s risky, and it goes beyond bathrooms”, he wrote in The Hill.
