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North Carolina Governor Faces Deadline on Anti-Transgender Law

HeadlineMay 09, 2016

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory faces a deadline today to renounce the state’s anti-transgender law after the Justice Department warned it violates civil rights and gender discrimination statutes. But Governor McCrory has signaled he plans to defend the law, despite risking billions in federal education funding. A new CNN/ORC poll finds Americans broadly oppose laws like North Carolina’s that bar transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity.

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