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Equality NC director: No public safety risks in cities with transgender anti-discrimination rules
PolitiFact
By Will Doran
April 1st, 2016

In the fight to defend Charlotte’s anti-discrimination ordinance, supporters questioned claims that it would have been a threat to public safety.

Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality NC, said many large cities have rules similar to what Charlotte proposed, before the legislature nullified it. Equality NC has since sued North Carolina to try to overturn the law.

"There have not been any public safety issues in those other communities," Sgro said at a rally outside the legislature just days before Charlotte’s bill was overturned.

But it fell on deaf ears.

Conservatives weren’t swayed, though. Before Charlotte’s bill was passed, and then after when it was being debated by the General Assembly and even now that is has been overturned, concerns about safety have been frequently mentioned.

The article then looks at the facts,

We asked the N.C. GOP if they could point to anything that backs up the safety fears. They provided a link to a news story in Seattle from earlier this year, about a man who had twice gone into a women’s locker room and began undressing. Seattle does allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.

The man didn’t identify as transgender and didn’t appear to present as a woman, the story said. No one called the police, and the man wasn’t charged with any crime. Follow-up stories described the incident as a stunt, perhaps politically motivated.

For the Republicans these are just minor pesky details.

My thoughts on why the bill passed in North Carolina and nowhere else so far is that the bill was rushed through in days in a special session and there was no time to debate the bill or organize opposition. Also I think the legislators didn't even know what they were voting for, they didn't have time to read the bill. In other states there was time to have people testify against the bill, organize the press, and to get businesses to oppose the bill.