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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 • • 52m ListenPhoto: 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)
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The federal government says the state of North Carolina is violating the civil rights of transgender people. A new law requires them to use only those public bathrooms designated for the sex on their birth certificates, not the sex that defines their sense of identity.
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