Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here with a quick take on what just happened between

the federal government and North Carolina in the controversial debate over that state's

new law regulating bathroom access.

I'm Scott Detrop, campaign reporter.

I'm Carrie Johnson, the Justice Correspondent.

And I'm Ron Elving, Editor-Corespondent.

Okay, so this morning, North Carolina announced they were suing the federal government over

that law, and then this afternoon, the federal government said, you're suing us?

No, we're suing you.

Here's Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

None of us can stand by when a state enters the business of legislating identity and

insists that a person pretend to be something or someone that they are not, or invents

a problem that does not exist as a pretext for discrimination and harassment.

And let me speak now directly to the people of the great state, the beautiful state,

my home state of North Carolina.

You have been told that this law protects vulnerable populations from harm, but that is just

not the case.

Instead, what this law does is inflict further indignity on a population that has already

suffered far more than its fair share.

So for people who haven't been following the story, the state of North Carolina recently

passed a law that among other things requires people in public buildings and schools to

use the restroom corresponding to their sex and birth.

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