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Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts
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Friday, April 8, 2016

Mother Jones: We Asked Cops How They Plan to Enforce North Carolina’s Bathroom Law

...How will the state try to enforce its new law, which is the first of its kind to be enacted in the United States? So I picked up the phone and started calling some North Carolina police departments to find out....
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/north-carolina-lgbt-bathrooms-hb2-enforcement


Thursday, April 7, 2016

PayPal Punishes North Carolina For Anti-LGBT Law By Abandoning 400-Job Expansion

PayPal announced Tuesday morning that it has abandoned its plans for a massive global operations center, which would have brought 400 new jobs to Charlotte, North Carolina. The company was unequivocal that the decision was made because of the state’s passage of HB2, a sweeping law that blocks cities from enacting LGBT nondiscrimination protections and mandates that transgender people use the wrong bathrooms for their gender identities....
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/04/05/3766501/paypal-north-carolina/



Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law is a Trojan Horse

When North Carolina lawmakers passed what is widely viewed as the most sweeping anti-LGBT law in the country, supporters said it was needed to fend off a potential wave of local laws like the transgender-friendly bathroom ordinance adopted by the city of Charlotte. Opponents have called the new law a “hostile takeover of human rights.”

But all the attention on who can use toilets and locker rooms has overshadowed what employment rights advocates say is an even more expansive change made by the law — one that could affect all workers in North Carolina, not just those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender....
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-north-carolinas-new-anti-lgbt-law-is-a-trojan-horse









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