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DOJ Takes on North Carolina's Transgender Bathroom Law

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.

By Warren Olney • May 10, 2016 • 52m Listen

Photo: A sign protesting a recent North Carolina law restricting transgender bathroom access adorns the bathroom stalls at the 21C Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina May 3, 2016. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters)

Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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DOJ Takes on North Carolina's Transgender Bathroom Law

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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DOJ Takes on North Carolina's Transgender Bathroom Law

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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