Did The Supreme Court Make This Moot?

All around the country Republicans have been trying to block our use of bathrooms and locker rooms, and out in Oregon parents sued the state over our use of locker rooms. On Monday the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal letting stand the lower courts ruling in our favor without comment.

Meanwhile down in North Carolina there is a debate over our use of… you guested it… bathrooms and locker rooms.

LGBTQ rights fight reignited 4 years after N.C.'s 'bathroom bill' controversy
The expiration of a compromise deal reached amid North Carolina's 2016 House Bill 2 debacle has left the state's gay and trans communities right back where they started.
NBC News
By Dan Avery
December 8, 2020


North Carolina was thrust into the national spotlight in March 2016 over House Bill 2, which prevented transgender people in the state from using bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity.

The so-called bathroom bill sparked a nationwide backlash that wreaked havoc on the state, causing far-reaching political and economic damage. A controversial compromise bill was enacted a year later, but part of that legislation expired last week, leaving LGBTQ advocates and their opponents right back where they started four years ago.
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That year alone, at least 16 states had considered laws limiting transgender access to sex-segregated facilities. But North Carolina was the only state to pass one. The General Assembly, which had Republican supermajorities in both chambers, had called special sessions to vote on the bill. (All 11 Democrats in the state Senate walked out in protest without voting.) Less than 12 hours after HB 2 was introduced, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed it into law.

But they felt the heat over the law.

A massive nationwide backlash ensued, with Adidas, PayPal, Deutsche Bank and other corporations scuttling plans for expansion in North Carolina, and TV and movie studios reconsidering shooting in the state. More than a dozen other states announced bans on travel to North Carolina

Why the battle for our rights continues and what is motivating our allies in the effort to repeal HB 2 and HB 142?

“The conversation wasn’t, ‘How can we protect queer and trans people?’ It was, ‘How can we bring back basketball?’” she [Jillian Johnson, mayor pro tempore of Durham, North Carolina] said.

“The vast majority of people exerting pressure on the Assembly were not concerned about me and the people in my community, they were concerned about losing money.”

It’s disheartening, she confessed.

Now with the Supreme Court letting us use the bathrooms of our gender identity in Oregon I have to wonder how it will affect other state laws banning us from using bathrooms and locker rooms. My guess that it will not force other states to rescind their bathroom laws. Why do I think that?

I think that this Supreme Court is big on state rights and that is why they refused to hear the lawsuit in Oregon, the court didn’t wanted to infringe on the “State Rights.”