UPDATED: Judge to consider halting North Carolina’s anti-transgender bathroom law

[DonViejo]

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Source: REUTERS

01 AUG 2016 AT 09:27 ET

A U.S. judge will hear arguments on Monday to stop North Carolina from enforcing a state law barring transgender people from using bathrooms in government buildings and public schools that correspond with their gender identity.

The state in March became the first in the country to restrict access to publicly-operated, single-sex restrooms and changing facilities to the gender on a birth certificate rather than the gender with which someone identifies.

The move fueled a national debate about bathrooms and transgender rights and made North Carolina a target for boycotts by companies, musicians and the National Basketball Association, which pulled its 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte.

Critics of the measure, known as House Bill 2 or HB 2, will argue to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder in Winston-Salem that it is stigmatizing and leaves transgender people vulnerable to harassment and violence.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/judge-to-consider-halting-north-carolinas-anti-transgender-bathroom-law/

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UPDATE

Below, at comment 5. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141538258#post5

Thanks, Eugene!

[unc70]

1. That judge was just overturned 3-0 on voter ID

Judge Schroeder is the same Bush appointee whose ruling upholding the voter ID and other voting restrictions was just overturned 3-0 by the same Fourth Circuit on appeal.

My guess is that he will likely uphold HB2.

[wildeyed]

2. I hope you are wrong.

HB2 is hurting business in the state big time. I doubt the business Reps are happy about it at all. :fingerscrossed: that it is overturned!

[unc70]

3. Whatever his ruling, it will be appealed

All of the cases like this go through all the appeals available.

[whistler162]

4. Simple solution.....

declare all restrooms Corporations. That way the right wing will want to remove all legislation regulating them!<SARCASM>

[Eugene]

5. The Latest: Judge Delays Ruling on Transgender Bathroom Case

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Judge Delays Ruling on Transgender Bathroom Case

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Aug 1, 2016, 2:09 PM ET

The Latest on a federal court hearing about a portion of a North Carolina law governing the use of public bathrooms by transgender people. (all times local):

2:10 p.m.

A federal judge in North Carolina has decided not to rule immediately on whether to block a portion of a state law governing the use of public bathrooms by transgender people.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder heard evidence Monday, ahead of a November trial that will determine the law's longer-term prospects. Schroeder will preside over that trial.

The U.S. Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union asked Schroeder to block a provision of the law requiring transgender people to use restrooms in many public buildings that match their birth certificates, rather than their gender identities. The law known as House Bill 2 also excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from statewide antidiscrimination protections.

Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, state legislative leaders and a citizens' group are defending the law because they say it offers common-sense privacy protections.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-judge-delays-ruling-transgender-bathroom-case-41048794

[Ragrum]

6. I live in the NC in a metro area and hope HB2 continues to hang around the neck of every GOP'r

I'd prefer HB2 be overturned by newly elected Dems. HB2 is a hateful bigoted wedge issue that will get out the vote.