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http://abc11.com/news/nc-house-passes-bill-blocking-transgender-ordinance/1258961/
So North Carolina has struck down an anti-discrimination bill passed by the city of Charlotte. I listened to part of the debate online; the Democrats appealed to human decency and concerns about eligibility for federal funding, while the Republicans spouted the usual transphobic rhetoric but focused on the claim (in the bill's preamble) that muncipalities were overreaching themselves by passing legislation that could indirectly affect everybody in the state. It restricts multiple-use washrooms to those of the appropriate 'biological sex' (as stated on their birth certificate); it also prevents municipalities from regulating employment conditions (minimum wage, hours of work, benefits, etc.). The bill was a direct response to Charlotte's LGBT anti-discrimination bill and the attempt by some places in the state to raise the local minimum wage.
The NC bill defines 'biological sex' as what's written on your birth certificate. The state allows a person to change that designation if they've had SRS and submit a notarized statement from the physician who did the procedure, in effect allowing discrimination against anybody who is not healthy and rich enough to afford SRS. (It is therefore clear that sex = genitals, rather than being some immutable biological feature.) In essence, they're concerned that little girls might see a penis.
Apparently, representatives had five minutes before the start of the emergency session to read the bill because it wasn't available before then.
Complaints about discrimination are received by the state's Human Relations Commission, which is apparently in danger of being defunded.
Ironically, the bill declares that "t is the public policy of this State to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain and hold employment without discrimination" because "the practice of denying employment opportunity and discriminating in the terms of employment foments domestic strife and unrest". As a result, "[t]he General Assembly declares that the regulation of discriminatory practices in employment is properly an issue of general, statewide concern" and therefore allows it to "supersede and preempt any ordinance, regulation, resolution, or policy adopted or imposed by a unit of local government or other political subdivision of the State". In other words, they are so concerned with discrimination that they refuse to allow anybody but the state government to address the issue - the state will determine what is discriminatory or not.
So North Carolina has struck down an anti-discrimination bill passed by the city of Charlotte. I listened to part of the debate online; the Democrats appealed to human decency and concerns about eligibility for federal funding, while the Republicans spouted the usual transphobic rhetoric but focused on the claim (in the bill's preamble) that muncipalities were overreaching themselves by passing legislation that could indirectly affect everybody in the state. It restricts multiple-use washrooms to those of the appropriate 'biological sex' (as stated on their birth certificate); it also prevents municipalities from regulating employment conditions (minimum wage, hours of work, benefits, etc.). The bill was a direct response to Charlotte's LGBT anti-discrimination bill and the attempt by some places in the state to raise the local minimum wage.
The NC bill defines 'biological sex' as what's written on your birth certificate. The state allows a person to change that designation if they've had SRS and submit a notarized statement from the physician who did the procedure, in effect allowing discrimination against anybody who is not healthy and rich enough to afford SRS. (It is therefore clear that sex = genitals, rather than being some immutable biological feature.) In essence, they're concerned that little girls might see a penis.
Apparently, representatives had five minutes before the start of the emergency session to read the bill because it wasn't available before then.
Complaints about discrimination are received by the state's Human Relations Commission, which is apparently in danger of being defunded.
Ironically, the bill declares that "t is the public policy of this State to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain and hold employment without discrimination" because "the practice of denying employment opportunity and discriminating in the terms of employment foments domestic strife and unrest". As a result, "[t]he General Assembly declares that the regulation of discriminatory practices in employment is properly an issue of general, statewide concern" and therefore allows it to "supersede and preempt any ordinance, regulation, resolution, or policy adopted or imposed by a unit of local government or other political subdivision of the State". In other words, they are so concerned with discrimination that they refuse to allow anybody but the state government to address the issue - the state will determine what is discriminatory or not.
I've never seen another woman's VJ in a restroom so I'm not sure how these men think otherwise... oh hang on, yes I do. It's because they're the sorts of guys who stood naked in the middle of the changing room making conversation when they were at school. 
