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Charlotte Proposal Stokes Debate Over Transgender Rights
Source: Associated Press
Charlotte Proposal Stokes Debate Over Transgender Rights
By TOM FOREMAN JR. AND JONATHAN DREW, ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Feb 22, 2016, 6:23 PM ET
North Carolina's largest city may pass a law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, prompting the governor to call the measure a threat to public safety and warn that the General Assembly may step in.
The Charlotte City Council was scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal to expand protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, making it the latest frontier in a national debate over how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender customers. One of the revisions to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance would allow people to choose restrooms corresponding to the gender with which they identify.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory — a former mayor of Charlotte, one of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. according to Census figures — said in an email Sunday that changing the policy on restrooms could "create major public safety issues."
"Also, this action of allowing a person with male anatomy, for example, to use a female restroom or locker room will most likely cause immediate State legislative intervention which I would support as governor," he wrote in the email to two Council members.
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By TOM FOREMAN JR. AND JONATHAN DREW, ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Feb 22, 2016, 6:23 PM ET
North Carolina's largest city may pass a law allowing transgender people to choose public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, prompting the governor to call the measure a threat to public safety and warn that the General Assembly may step in.
The Charlotte City Council was scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal to expand protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, making it the latest frontier in a national debate over how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender customers. One of the revisions to the city's nondiscrimination ordinance would allow people to choose restrooms corresponding to the gender with which they identify.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory — a former mayor of Charlotte, one of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. according to Census figures — said in an email Sunday that changing the policy on restrooms could "create major public safety issues."
"Also, this action of allowing a person with male anatomy, for example, to use a female restroom or locker room will most likely cause immediate State legislative intervention which I would support as governor," he wrote in the email to two Council members.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/charlotte-proposal-stokes-debate-transgender-rights-37117749
