The State of North Carolina cannot use H.B. 142, the law that replaced H.B. 2, to prevent transgender individuals from using public restrooms and other facilities in state government buildings that match their gender under an agreement approved on July 23 by a federal court.
BY CASH MICHAELS FOR THE CHRONICLE Some are calling it “the failure heard around the world,” and as rhetorical as that seems, the N.C. General Assembly’s inability to follow through
North Carolina’s Republican leadership is in a blinking contest with the U.S. Justice Department and there is plenty at stake, as much as $3 billion a year of federal dollars that are shared among the 17-member UNC system and the state’s public schools, including urgently needed money that comes to Robeson County.
With billions in federal funding now on the line, the U.S. Department of Justice and the State of North Carolina are now battling in court over House Bill 2.