North Carolina Governor Pat Mccrory Case Analysis

Kansas passed a bill on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 that denies transgender students from using the restroom, as well as other facilities retaining to gender “when they are in various states of undress” (Committee on Federal and State Affairs, page 1; sec. 2; subparagraph b; lines 8-12), based on their preferred gender and forces them to use the restroom based on their birth sex. This bill was passed by the Committee on Federal and State Affairs in order to protect the privacy of students and to prevent “potential embarrassment, shame and psychological injury to students” (Committee on Federal and State Affairs, page 1; sec. 2; subparagraph f; lines 27-29). This bill also allows for students to sue a transgender student for two-thousand five hundred dollars if they are found in the “wrong” restroom. Forcing the transgender students in Kansas to use the restroom based on biology is wrong because forcing someone to disregard a personal preference to accommodate another is inhumane and has potentially deadly effects.

In her article North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access, author Colleen Jenkins talks about the issue going in North Carolina regarding the law in which banned transgender’s using the the restroom of the gender with which they identify with. In her article, Jenkins discusses the fact that students in North Carolina have asked the U.S. court to block two federal agencies from withholding education funding while the dispute over the bathroom access for transgenders goes on. In addition, the group called “North Carolinians for privacy” discussed the fact that U.S Department of Justice and U.S Department of Education had dishonorably held arrangements of government laws banning segregation in the education settings on the

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's elected officials sound headed toward a familiar debate over teacher pay when the legislature reconvenes in about three months.

The North Carolina House Bill 2 states that transgender people are required to use the bathroom that they biologically identify with. As well as allowing businesses to discriminate against transgender people. As the number of people supporting the LGBT community grows the constitutionality of the law is being questioned.

Transgendered men and women face more discrimination today than gays and lesbians. Individuals in the transgender community have been murdered at alarming rates as each year passes, trans-women and men are four times more likely to commit or attempt suicide than individuals who are heterosexual, Awareness is beginning to become harder to spread nationwide as many state legislatures are calling for transgendered men and women to enter public restrooms by their designated gender.

TIME magazine in April 5, 2016, in North Carolina, the law passed recently became the first state law in the country limiting transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates, also excluding LGBT people from anti-discrimination protections, plus blocking municipalities from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. (Dalesio, 2016)

In March 2016, a “bathroom bill,” entitled the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act was introduced in North Carolina and signed into law by Governor Pat McCrory. Commonly referred to as “HB2,” or House Bill 2, this law states that within government buildings, like schools, an individual must use the restroom or changing facility that matches the sex listed on their birth certificate. For transgender individuals, this presents a problem, as their birth sex and the gender with which they identify do not match. Several other states, including South Dakota, Florida, Tennessee, and Wisconsin have introduced similar bills. Although these forms of legislature may seem of concern to only a minority, it should ultimately concern anyone who

Transgendered individuals are more likely to be questioned and stopped by the police due to the fact that they are not the same as those around them. Additionally they are more likely to be engaged in survival crimes such as sex work, end up behind bars, and more likely to face abuse behind bars. They are humiliated daily; physically, sexually and are now emotionally scared for life.

people to use the restroom that suits their biological sex. This article discusses a case wherein a

Transgender people are discriminated for who they are. They usually feel like they don't matter. As seen in interviews, young transgender people feel like they have no control over themselves, and they have little laws that give them basic human rights. As said in Michigan Radio, “So I'd just sort of be walking with all my friends and then they just sort of kept going into their bathroom and I got to go into my special just-for-me bathroom... It made me feel like I was an "other." It just got lonely.” (11 1) Young trans people can be in bad positions, and can't get the resources (like top surgery of testosterone) because their parents are not supporting, which can increase suicide rates. These people need rights to feel accepted.

On May 31st, 2016 an article was written about the use of restrooms for transgender people. This article is another example of not only the amount of discrimination seen in example one, but also about the amount of segregation constantly occurring in the United States to this day. Transgender people are being saw differently from others when they only want to fit in and be themselves. They can only use restrooms according to the sex they were born with. Some places are even starting to make “uni-sex” restrooms. They are not aloud to use the restrooms depending on the gender they changed to. Jim Crows Laws that kept blacks and whites segregated relates to this problem as well. Transgender people are being segregated from everyone else because

Gender-neutral bathrooms are needed all around the nation. Gender-Neutral bathroom can help and protect the transgender community who is recently battling against the government in Mississippi, Arizona and North Carolina. The transgender community has been suffering from discrimination and violence; Different bills added in different states which is only protecting some; those who do not belong to the LGBT community while the violence and stereotypes against transgender people continue. On March 23 a house bill was passed in North Carolina; House bill 2 which articulates that an employee cannot sue the employer if he/she was fired because of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, handicap, sex orientation and/or biological sex. This bill also states

First, utilizing public restrooms are a major problem for transitioning individuals. In many states, like Kentucky, there have been numerous attempts to pass laws that would force these individuals to use the bathroom that reflects the gender on their birth certificate, which usually states the gender assigned at birth. This is a form of discrimination due to the fact it would single out Trans individuals making them targets. It can be assumed no one is going to bother a cisgender individual only those, they suspect of being transgendered. For example, a transwoman who is just a few months into her hormones and has not received Sexual Reassignment Surgery going into the women’s restroom in a Walmart is stopped by security and asked to prove her identity using her Identification that still says male. She will then be charged for using “the wrong” restroom and forced to go to the boys bathroom where she has an increased chance of being involved in a hate crime or sexual assault. This action is like painting a sign on a person’s

Transgender discrimination has been on the rise for many years, causing the suicide, murder, and rape rates to increase horribly. Statistics show that 41 percent of the transgender population has, or will have, attempted suicide at least once in his or her lifetime. Only 4.1 percent of the cisgender population has,

In 2016, North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, also known as House Bill 2 (HB2). House Bill 2 is an anti-LGBT law that requires people to use the public facilities that corresponds to the sex marked on one’s birth certificate. The law is targeted toward transgender individuals in North Carolina and makes using the facilities that match with their gender identity illegal. The passage of the law has been looked down upon and states across the USA have banned