North Carolina Senate Acts to Repeal Restrictive Bathroom Law
Source: New York Times
ATLANTA — The North Carolina Senate voted in favor of a bill Thursday that repealed the controversial law affecting transgender bathroom use in public buildings, part of a compromise worked out earlier in the week between Republican legislative leaders and the Democratic governor.
But with anger rising over the compromise from groups on both the left and right, it was unclear whether eventual passage of the new bill into law would extricate North Carolina from the roiling national controversy over the proper levels of legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The bill passed the Senate, 32-16, in a late morning vote after only brief discussion. The Senate Democratic leader, Dan Blue, said that while the state still needed to have a conversation about making sure “everybody’s dignity is respected,” something needed to be done to end the boycotts sparked by the existing law, known as House Bill 2.
The compromise, he said, “brings an end to an economic threat.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/north-carolina-senate-acts-to-repeal-restrictive-bathroom-law.html
nb - the ACLU doesn't support this legislation:
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