The 'bathroom bill' is finally dead.
was enacted and signed into law in a swift 23-hours in March 2016 by then-Gov. Pat McCrory. It not only banned transgender people from using any state-owned or operated public bathroom or facility that did not match the gender marker on their birth certificate, it also removed all local protections for Backlash was swift, with boycotts and massive protests, as well as smaller counter protests in support of the law.
The result of that settlement was approved by U.S. Judge Thomas Schroeder on July 23. In his eight-page consent decree, Schroeder said the settlement bars North Carolina officials from using H.B. 142 “to prevent transgender people from lawfully using public facilities in accordance with their gender identity.”
"I am surprised by the ruling by Judge Schroeder," Angela Bridgman told me."The entire mess of H.B. 2 and H.B. 142 is nowhere near over in North Carolina, though people outside of our state may think so. Transgender people are still denied basic rights. And I made it clear, when H.B. 2 started that nobody was going to see my birth certificate until I saw a warrant.
“We are thrilled to obtain some clarity and relief for transgender North Carolinians who have been suffering under H.B. 2 and H.B. 142 for years,"said Irena Como, acting legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina."While this part of the court fight may be ending, so much urgent work remains as long as people who are LGBTQ are denied basic protections from violence and discrimination simply because of who they are.
That"urgent work" Como referred to may wind up being a re-litigation of this very same issue. Following announcement of the settlement, North Carolina Republicans in the Raleigh General Assembly
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