A federal judge issued an injunction Friday blocking the University of North Carolina from enforcing HB2, the law requiring state agencies to block transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, with regard to transgender students and employees of various campuses who have sued over the law. “This is not a final resolution of this case, and the governor will continue to defend North Carolina law”.
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“Judge Schroeder rightly recognized that transgender people in North Carolina, and all over the nation, have been using restrooms that match their gender identity without issue”, National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling said in a statement, “and that HB2 interferes with transgender people’s ability to work and learn and endangers their health”.
But the judge contended that the law violates a portion of federal law that does not allow public institutions to discriminate against students based on sex.
“The individual transgender plaintiffs have clearly shown that they will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief”, he wrote, noting their assertions that single-occupant bathrooms were generally unavailable at the University of North Carolina.
“Today, the tightness that I have felt in my chest every day since HB2 passed has eased”, he added.
Civil rights activists praised the ruling, which came as part of a larger case challenging the law.
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A federal court declared on Friday that North Carolina’s anti-LGBT HB2 can not be enforced while it is being challenged in court.
An estimated 0.6 per cent of USA adults identify as transgender, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law.
“This ruling is an important first step to make sure that thousands of LGBT people who call North Carolina home – particularly transgender people – get the privacy, respect, and protections afforded others in the state”, Borelli said.
Friday’s decision hinged largely on a ruling by a federal appeals court in favor of a transgender teen seeking to use the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school.
Judge Thomas Schroeder was appointed by George W. Bush.
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“A school system could say: ‘The writing is on the wall, and we can’t lawfully enforce HB2, ‘” she said.
