Peeing In Peace

That is all we ask.

A settlement in North Carolina allows us to use restrooms again without being arrested, it is not perfect but a step in the directions.

North Carolina 'bathroom bill' settlement approved
Reuters By Alex Dobuzinskis
July 23, 2019

(Reuters) - Transgender people in North Carolina can use any public restroom in state-run buildings that conforms with their gender identity under a U.S. court settlement approved on Tuesday, in the latest turn of a long-running dispute that divided the state.

The settlement, which overturns part of a state law, ends a three-year legal fight by transgender people in North Carolina seeking the right to use the bathroom of their gender identity.

A 2016 North Carolina law, known as House Bill 2, required transgender people in state-run buildings use the bathrooms, changing rooms and showers that corresponded to the sex on their birth certificates.
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"While this part of the court fight may be ending, so much urgent work remains as long as people who are LGBTQ are denied basic protections from violence and discrimination simply because of who they are," Irena Como, acting legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina, said in a statement.

And of course the Republicans don’t like the settlement…

Schroeder, in an eight-page ruling on Tuesday, said the settlement bars state officials from using the legislation "to prevent transgender people from lawfully using public facilities in accordance with their gender identity."

The Republican-controlled North Carolina General Assembly filed court papers opposing the settlement.

Lets face it the Republicans want to control our bodies and when the Republicans cry “get the government out of our lives” they mean for big business not individuals.