DOJ Takes on North Carolina's Transgender Bathroom Law
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The US and North Carolina have sued each over the state's new law restricting public bathroom use by transgender people. It's a conflict between civil rights and states' rights with shades of the 1960's.
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| 0:47.4 | The federal government says the state of North Carolina is violating the civil rights of transgender people. |
| 0:53.0 | A new law requires them to use only those public |
| 0:55.6 | bathrooms designated for the sex on their birth certificates, not the sex that defines their sense |
| 1:00.8 | of identity. Attorney General Loretta Lynch compares it to the Jim Crow laws used to discriminate |
| 1:06.3 | against black Americans after the Civil War. Billions in federal education money could be withheld, |
| 1:12.8 | and Governor Pat McCrory says Washington's being a bully. |
| 1:16.2 | Even before it's clear how the law might be enforced, |
| 1:19.4 | lawsuits could lead to judicial decisions with national impact. |
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