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Let's all flip out about 0.3% of the entire population of the country and boycott entire states when a minority of this tiniest of minorities in one state. The number of transgender North Carolina citizens and transgender people who visit North Carolina is an even smaller percentage than that 0.3% nationally. They can still use the bathroom anyway. This is such a distraction. If only people cared at all about real topics- social security robbing the young, drone wars in Yemen, etc.....
No, I don't care at all. States rights are great because if you don't like one, you don't have to live there.
Let's stop acting like the law is "Everyone who is transgendered must register with the state government, receive a marker to be worn at all times, and then select a date for execution."
The bathroom thing is the least offensive part of that so-called bathroom law. The worst part is that it prohibits cities from passing any laws that would protect the LGBTQ community. That's what's most important, and that's why people are outraged.
To be clear, this law was never about transsexuals and bathrooms. It was a transparent attempt to restrict gay rights, and deprive the LGBTQ community of any chance for equal protection under the law. They added the bathroom thing to get yokels arguing about grown man sharing bathrooms with their eight-year-old daughters.
Absolutely. It's a bigoted law and only those who have never been a discriminated minorty would understand how evil it is. I thought North Carolina was the "progressive south"? Sure doesn't seem like it!!
The bathroom thing is the least offensive part of that so-called bathroom law. The worst part is that it prohibits cities from passing any laws that would protect the LGBTQ community. That's what's most important, and that's why people are outraged.
Not only that, but HB2 also did away with any legal remedies for discrimination cases at the state level.
As a resident of Indiana, I can certainly empathize with those North Carolinians who feel that they are being judged unfairly based on the actions of an out of touch state government. We just dealt with a similar backlash here last year. It's not a good feeling, watching the state you love be highjacked by fundamentalists who don't represent the views of the majority. And then (fairly or unfairly) to have the rest of the country turn against you, judge you, boycott you, tell you that you should move if you disagree with it (from both sides of the debate), tell you they hope your state's economy crumbles, that all Hoosiers need to pay, etc. It sucked. I feel that the only saving grace for Indiana (a state that - for reasons I've never been able to fully understand or have articulated to me - is despised by many anyway) is that the cities DO still have the right to establish their own anti discrimination laws, and many have. This has, to an extent, saved Indianapolis (which had already had such a law on the books for many years) from A LOT of lost revenue, and helped it save face perception wise. It's unfortunate that North Carolina cities will not be extended the same privilege. So while it does change my perception of North Carolina being a progressive southern state slightly, I don't blame the people or hold the average citizen of North Carolina in contempt. I've seen firsthand just how regressive, damaging, and dangerous an out of control state government can be when it goes unchecked and it isn't pretty. Hopefully the people of NC can manage to do exactly what I hope we can do here in Indiana - vote them out!
This was just a bigoted law conceived to solve a problem that does not exist. I'm saddened that more than half of the state reps and the governor believe that non gender binary people basically don't exist. It also upsets me that so many people believe that LGB people deserve no protections against discrimination. No one should be discriminated against, I don't get why this isn't a common belief among all Americans.
However I hate to stereotype all people from North Carolina based on this dumb law. Homophobes/Transphobes exist everywhere, I just hope that most of them are old fart-balls who will die off soon.
How ironic, the progressive and tolerant liberal wishing death on those who don't share his point of view.
Honestly...no, it does not change my view of the state as a whole in the slightest.
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