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Usually at the top of the show, I rant at you for a few minutes about something that I'm upset or concerned about.

And what I'm most upset and most concerned about today, Tuesday, is what happened in North Carolina last week.

But as I sat down to think about what I might say at the top of the show, I realized I was just going to repeat and regurgitate a lot of what Dominic Holden, National LGBT reporter at BuzzFeed News, has been writing over the last week about North Carolina. So I thought better than just regurgitate Dom. I would invite Dom to come on for the top of the show. Hey, Dom, thanks for jumping on the phone.

Good to be here, Dan.

Full disclosure, we used to work together here at the Stranger home paper.

Now that that's out of the way, what the fuck happened in North Carolina last week?

I mean, essentially what happened was there was a backlash to what the Charlotte City Council did in February.

They passed a non-discrimination ordinance that covered gender identity and sexual orientation for employment, housing, and this was the big one, public accommodations.

And Republican leaders in the Capitol were concerned about this public accommodation portion.

They said that this was going to allow transgender women, who they called men, to use public restrooms and locker rooms and essentially sexually prey on women and girls.

So what they did in response was they convened a special one-day session before the city law could take effect, and the state passed House Bill 2.

And they did this in about 10 hours.

What it did was essentially two things.

The first is override all local nondiscrimination ordinances that provide discrimination protections that aren't

covered by state law, and then they left out LGBT people from coverage. The other thing it did

is it specifically mandated that transgender students and restrooms and government-run buildings,

they could not be accessed by people with a corresponding gender identity.

And in schools, that's a particularly legally questionable move because under the Obama administration, the federal government is found that violating transgender students' rights is illegal under civil rights laws.

Okay, so there will be lawsuits.

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