- The North Carolina legislature on Wednesday passed a sweeping bill overturning gay and transgender protections at the local level and requiring students to use public restrooms that correspond to their biological sex.
Gov. Pat McCrory, a former Charlotte mayor, signed the bill hours later, according to the Associated Press.
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This kind of conflict between relatively progressive legislation at the local level in cities and college towns and state governments shutting them down has been happening more and more in the south. Distrust of the distant over the local was a thing long before the Republican party. The Republicans have owned that ideological corner for a long time and have gotten a lot of mileage out of it, and now they seem to be throwing it away on culture wars stunts. It's weirdly self-destructive.
The thing I don't get it that it's not like the bathroom door has some force field which only allows in one gender. These "predators" have literally always been able to gain access to women's bathrooms by opening a door. Just bullshit excuses from politicians to shoot down progress.
There's probably more trans people that look their gender than those that look their sex too, so if the new rules were magically enforced they would cause more problems, not less.