On March 23, lawmakers in North Carolina voted in favor of a bill that will prevent transgender people from choosing which bathrooms to use and ban cities in the state from passing legislation designed to curb discrimination. In the weeks since, voices from across the U.S. have united in a chorus of ardent opposition to the law, which has been described as a “harmful and dehumanizing” slight against the state’s LGBT population. (It isn’t unprecedented: in 2012, 60% of the state’s voters supported a constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage; it was later deemed unconstitutional.) The popular...
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