Post by ck4829 on Dec 23, 2016 11:56:48 GMT
Efforts to repeal HB2, North Carolina’s infamous transphobic so-called “bathroom bill,” failed on Wednesday night after a series of wild political events led legislators to wrap up a special session on Wednesday without actually overturning the bill—which was the entire point of the session to begin with.
Despite early indications that the state’s general assembly would, in fact, reverse the controversial law, passed last spring in response to a Charlotte anti-discrimination ordinance protecting the rights of LGBTQ residents, Republicans reportedly could not muster the legislative muscle—or perhaps willpower—necessary to repeal the bill. On Wednesday afternoon, the state House adjourned without taking the bill up. The Senate followed hours later.
The news comes after Charlotte repealed its initial ordinance—initially in part, and eventually in full—with assurances that state lawmakers would reciprocate in kind by rolling back HB2. (That move was decried by many people who saw it as a capitulation to transphobia.) Shockingly, though, the same legislators who eagerly passed voter suppression laws, stripped the incoming Democratic governor of crucial powers, and, let’s not forget, passed HB2 in the first place, didn’t hold up their end of the deal.
fusion.net/story/377410/north-carolina-bathroom-bill-hb2-repeal-fail/
Despite early indications that the state’s general assembly would, in fact, reverse the controversial law, passed last spring in response to a Charlotte anti-discrimination ordinance protecting the rights of LGBTQ residents, Republicans reportedly could not muster the legislative muscle—or perhaps willpower—necessary to repeal the bill. On Wednesday afternoon, the state House adjourned without taking the bill up. The Senate followed hours later.
The news comes after Charlotte repealed its initial ordinance—initially in part, and eventually in full—with assurances that state lawmakers would reciprocate in kind by rolling back HB2. (That move was decried by many people who saw it as a capitulation to transphobia.) Shockingly, though, the same legislators who eagerly passed voter suppression laws, stripped the incoming Democratic governor of crucial powers, and, let’s not forget, passed HB2 in the first place, didn’t hold up their end of the deal.
fusion.net/story/377410/north-carolina-bathroom-bill-hb2-repeal-fail/