North Carolina to Limit Bathroom Use by "Birth Gender"

[lovedforaday]

North Carolina legislators, in a whirlwind special session on Wednesday, passed a wide-ranging bill barring transgender people from bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match the gender on their birth certificates

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[eveofrevolution]

[spidergwen]

This is one of the major reasons I don't want any of the GOP candidates to win and why I see red when idiots start hoping the dem nominee loses in hopes that it would burn the party to the ground.

Elections have consequences

[moonshaz]

I agree sfm.

[rhysande]

Add in the "It'll only be 4-8 years" justification. Like we aren't still living with the attitudes, policies, and laws that past administrations put in place 10, 20, 30, 40 years down the road. Seats on the Supreme Court bench are only part of the long term influence a president can have. We're still living with and fighting against the results of No Child Left Behind (Bush), the Welfare Queen myth (Reagan), and the War on Drugs (Nixon), just to name a few.

[tabaqui]

Jesus fuck, am I sick of this crap. What in *hell* is going on with us that this shite is being condoned and made into law all over the country? Makes me want to puke.

[cherriesarered]

As an NC voter, I am hoping that we can get rid of Governor McCrory and at least a few of our Republican legislators this November. McCrory has gone back on so many promises ("not going to sign into law any new abortion restrictions" HA) and is honestly so awful. And the legislature, well, I don't even have to say anything about them.

It's really hard, though - I was reading online that even if Democrats win all of the competitive seats, the NC general assembly will still be a Republican majority.

Open question: does anyone understand how the Republican supermajority happened? I mean, NC voters are pretty evenly split across party lines (and if you're counting number of registered voters, there are actually more Democrats). Is the districting weird? Is it a function of the fact that a lot of the most liberal people are concentrated in metropolitan areas and near universities? SOMEONE HELP ME UNDERSTAND.

[brittdreams]

Gerrymandering based on the 2010 Census. Also, just a guess, but they probably count incarcerated people in weird ways to make districts look more diverse on paper than they are if you only consider eligible voters.

Redistricting is the reason the Dems need to put in a lot more effort at the local and state levels if they want things to be different in the coming decade.

[cherriesarered]

Yeah, I know about the gerrymandering with regards to the US House seats, but I wasn't sure about the state legislature. The general consensus here seems to be that those districts are gerrymandered too, so yay, NC! >_

[moonshaz]

Oh, yeah, those districts are definitely gerrymandered, too. The way districts are drawn is so fucked up.

[calinewarkwc69]

The entire argument for this is fucking ridiculous. I love this meme about it, because it really sums it up for me! When we talk about transgender people, these crotchety ass Republicans have the wrong idea-- they just can't grasp the concept.

[moonshaz]

Thanks so much for that meme--it's brilliant!