The long court battle over the North Carolina law.
This will probably be a fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
Right now I am heading off to do training for 211 operators on integrating homeless shelters. This is one in a series of trainings that we are doing around the state to teach shelter staff and 211 operators about the law here in Connecticut and also about the Fair Housing Act and HUD policy.
North Carolina governor sued over transgender lawRound and round where it ends no one knows.
By Ralph Ellis, CNN
March 28, 2016
(CNN)A federal lawsuit was filed Monday against the North Carolina governor and other state officials over a new law that blocks transgender individuals from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity and stops cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect gay and transgender people.
Two transgender men, a lesbian, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina and Equality North Carolina want a judge to declare the state law, House Bill 2, unconstitutional and a violation of federal laws banning sex discrimination.
"While the discriminatory, stated focus of the legislature in passing H.B. 2 -- the use of restrooms by transgender people -- is on its own illegal and unconstitutional, H.B. 2 in facts wreaks far greater damage by also prohibiting local governments in North Carolina from enacting express anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity," the lawsuit says.
This will probably be a fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
Right now I am heading off to do training for 211 operators on integrating homeless shelters. This is one in a series of trainings that we are doing around the state to teach shelter staff and 211 operators about the law here in Connecticut and also about the Fair Housing Act and HUD policy.
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