North Carolina’s bathroom fumble, Part 2
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article77887772.html
In his 10-page lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice, Gov. Pat McCrory offered a hauntingly familiar defense of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law: HB 2 doesn’t discriminate against transgender individuals, because transgender identity isn’t really real.
That’s a rationale, legal and otherwise, that was used against gays and lesbians during their fight for equality. It’s no less disturbing now – and no more valid....
To which the governor says: What gender identity? Regardless of whom Title VII might protect, McCrory says, HB 2 doesn’t treat transgender individuals differently from non-transgender individuals. “All state employees are required to use the bathroom and changing facilities assigned to persons of their same biological sex, regardless of gender identity,” the lawsuit contends....
It is, essentially, a denial that a transgender person has claim to a different “gender identity,” which is the same rejection that was made of gays’ and lesbians’ claim to “sexual orientation.” It’s not biology, the reasoning goes. It’s a choice.
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