So perhaps you guys have heard of HB2 in North Carolina. It's a law that was passed in 12 hours that made it illegal for transgendered people to go to the bathroom unless the plumbing matches the sign on the door. And of course there's been a ton of backlash. So on Thursday, the DOJ gave North Carolina until today, May 9th, to either repeal the law or face the consequences. Well North Carolina had an answer to that.
They sued the DoJ in order to continue to discriminateNorth Carolina casts its so-called bathroom bill as a "common sense bodily privacy law." The federal government calls it discrimination, pure and simple.
The two will face off in federal court in North Carolina after two of the state's top officials Monday sued the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and one of her assistants.
The lawsuit calls last week's demand that the state "remedy" its Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act by Monday or risk being in violation of federal law "a baseless and blatant overreach."
The act bans individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex, as dictated by their birth certificates.
In its letter last week to Gov. Pat McCrory, the Justice Department asserted, "Access to sex-segregated restrooms and other workplace facilities consistent with gender identity is a term, condition or privilege of employment. Denying such access to transgender individuals, whose gender identity is different from their gender assigned at birth, while affording it to similarly situated non-transgender employees, violates Title VII."
Oh this was gonna get fun in a second because the Federal Government is now suing North Carolina in response.
The U.S. government filed a lawsuit Monday against North Carolina saying that state entities were in violation of provisions in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX the Education Acts Amendment of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act that outlaw discrimination on the basis of sex. The lawsuit comes hours after Gov. Pat McCrory sued the Justice Department, asking a federal court to rule whether the state's so-called bathroom bill violated U.S. law.
The amazing thing I've seen from Conservitards is that they really don't do well against shit like this. They lost the fight on gay marriage because they're ass backwards and are now creating an opportunity to expand the the Civil Rights Act with this shit. And McCrory, an amazing politician if I ever saw one, was on the news cycle this weekend getting his ass kicked when pressed to name a single transgendered assault in a bathroom. His answer? He can't cite any cases in which someone who is transgendered assaulted someone in the bathroom. Amazing.
Ironbite-oh and the Feds didn't give North Carolina enough time to respond even though they had 3 working days, 5 if you count the weekend. The poor babies.