Loretta Lynch tells judge to halt N.C. law that protects women in restrooms

United Press International

“H.B. 2 denies transgender people access to sex-segregated bathrooms and changing rooms consistent with their gender identity unless they can produce an amended birth certificate,” the Justice Department wrote in a legal memorandum filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The Justice Department in May filed a counter lawsuit against North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Public Safety Secretary Frank Perry in which the department accuses North Carolina of violating multiple provisions of federal law — Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

“Excluding transgender men and women from bathroom and changing facilities consistent with their gender identity causes significant and irreparable physical, psychological, economic, social and stigmatic harm to transgender people,” the Justice Department writes, adding that arguments stating H.B. 2 was enacted over privacy and public safety concerns are “factually baseless and legally insufficient to justify this discrimination.”......Read more.