ACLU, North Carolina governor reach agreement in transgender bathroom lawsuit
Source: Reuters
#POLITICS OCTOBER 18, 2017 / 4:54 PM / UPDATED 38 MINUTES AGO
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Transgender people would be allowed to use public restrooms in North Carolina that match their gender identity under a settlement agreement filed on Wednesday that aims to resolve the federal lawsuit over the states widely criticized bathroom law.
The consent decree proposed by Governor Roy Cooper, the American Civil Liberties Union and transgender people who sued the state would remove some of the laws harmful effects, civil rights groups said.
The judge in the case must sign off on the proposal before it takes effect.
A measure passed in March helped bring back some business and sports events pulled from the state in protest in the year after it enacted the so-called bathroom bill known as HB 2. But activists said transgender people still faced discrimination and threats to their safety under the new law.
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(6,916 posts)This bill is a trojan horse. On its face its about transgender bathrooms. But that's just an identity politics issue to cover up the REAL purpose of the bill - giveaways to GOP big money donors, of course. In the form of new wage caps.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/not-about-bathrooms-critics-decry-north-carolina-laws-lesser-known-elements/2016/05/14/387946ec-186b-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html
Those provisions, opponents say, are pernicious attempts to roll back rights, and they have been tucked into a bill that has a very different public face.
This is really a devious bill that harms workers under the guise of regulating bathrooms, said Harold Lloyd, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law.