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Thank you North Carolina

Posted: Apr 6, 2016

Thank you North Carolina for keeping our values in check and for using common sense.

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We had a similar thing here in Georgia - but what the governor had said

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when he first took office and stuck to his guns was no discrimination ever. Having said that, I am sure NC will be seeing the retributions from that in the loss of many, many companies there and millions of dollars. It might not mean much to you or me but I think to a state it does.

What are you thanking North Carolina for? - What is the news?

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Please fill me in.

This is what this post is - about

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The North Carolina state Legislature has passed a law blocking local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules to grant protections to gay and transgender people.

I think people think reverse discrimination. Large companies, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Disney Films amongst others have said they will not do business with a state that passes such.

Transgender people must use the restroom based....sm - VTMT

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on the gender on their birth certificate. I can just imagine the ruckus it would cause if a transgender women entered a men's restroom.

Yesterday I happened to see an interview - with a transgender woman

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They were talking about the NC issue. She said she had been using the women's restroom for years, nothing came of it. I said she, might be he? Anyway dresses like woman, looks woman but not.

So, she goes into the ladies restroom, goes into a.....sm - VTMT

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stall, locks the door, does her business, washes her hands, and leaves. Women don't sit around a communal urinal comparing anatomy.

Kind of reminds me of when it was a crime...sm - VTMT

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to "pass" as white in the south. Now the same discrimination is being directed toward the transgender community. The thing that is so hilarious to me is, even in male restrooms, there is a stall for privacy if you so desire. Do proponents of this legislation think transgender people will strip and attack in the restroom? I just do not get it. PayPal has pulled out of expanding in NC and may come to Vermont.

So, the rights of those who do not wish to have a male (born that way) in a female restroom mean not - anon

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Typical liberal mindset.

Uncomfortable with my own thoughts - old and burned out

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I am unapologetically liberal but there is a transgender person who goes to my gym (male to female). She has feminine facial features but is over 6" tall, probably wears a size 13+ shoe, is big boned, but now has breasts. I feel sorry for her but if she comes into the locker room, I'm leaving. I'm not worried about anything she would do, it would just make me uncomfortable. Call me a hypocrite if you like but I can't get over that feeling of discomfort.

There are probably more that use the bathroom - and you might not be aware

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of the gender. Remember years ago in Buffalo, NY my husband called my attention to the fact of what I thought female in front of me was anything but. Really attractive male but dressed as opposite.

Pass as white in the south? Southern here, - old southern and never

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heard of it being a crime to pass as white.

What a hateful, backward state NC is. How - exactly do they expect to - sm

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enforce their stupid "bathroom discrimination" laws? Will there be a guard in front of each one? Will employees have to show "credentials" in order to use the toilet? I'd rather peed out in the parking lot than have to prove I'm a female every time I go to the bathroom.

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