The U.S. Department of Justice officials told North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on May 4 that HB2 violates Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The DOJ is giving North Carolina until May 9 to confirm that the state "will not comply with or implement HB2."
The Charlotte Observer reports:
The letter says HB2, which pre-empted Charlotte’s anti-discrimination ordinance, violates Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in education based on sex.
If that determination is upheld, North Carolina could lose millions in federal school funding. During the current school year, state public schools received $861 million in federal funding.
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“Access to sex-segregated restrooms and other workplace facilities consistent with gender identity is a term, condition or privilege of employment. Denying such access to transgender individuals, whose gender identity is different from the gender assigned at birth, while affording it to similarly situated non-transgender employees, violates Title VII …
The law has also been widely criticized by faith leaders. Writing at Sojourners in March, William Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove said:
"[Conservative lawmakers'] call to 'protect our women and children' echoes language of the white supremacy campaign that overthrew local governments in this state 120 years ago. Both then and now, the call to defend families against imagined predators is a crude power grab."
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