Feds ask court to halt NC anti-trans bathroom law
The Justice Department wants a federal judge to stop implementation of North Carolina’s HB 2.
“H.B. 2 is not merely a solution to a non-existent problem; it is state-sanctioned discrimination that is inflicting immediate and significant harm on transgender individuals,” Justice Department lawyers write.
The “bathroom” portion of the law prohibits people from using public restrooms that don’t correspond to their birth certificates, effectively barring many transgender people from using the restroom that corresponds with their gender identity.
The Justice Department sued the state in federal court after the passage of the law earlier this year, alleging that the provision violates federal nondiscrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the Violence Against Women Act. As to Title VII and Title IX, the department argues that the sex discrimination bans in those laws include a ban on anti-transgender discrimination because, they say, gender identity-based discrimination is a type of sex discrimination.
In the Tuesday motion in one of several lawsuits over HB 2, the Justice Department asked for “a preliminary injunction enjoining Defendants from complying with or implementing Section 1.3 of North Carolina Session Law 2016-3, House Bill 2.”
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Budda July 6th, 2016 at 10:00
Another useless law by Repubs. Unless they intended it to be a “jobs” bill by requiring vast amounts of ‘potty-police”.
mistlesuede July 6th, 2016 at 11:34
I’m hoping this issue, among others, plays a role in turning out the Democratic vote substantially this fall. That creep of a Governor needs to go also.