Showdown In North Caroline!

North Caroline has a split personality, Republican legislature and a Democrat governor, so that is leading to a showdown over us.

North CarolinaAnti-trans bills in NC may trigger showdown with state’s Democratic governor

State Rep. Allison Dahle spoke out against the effort in an interview with the Blade

Washington Blade

By Christopher Kane

June 25, 2025

Anti-trans legislation passed this week by North Carolina’s Republican-controlled General Assembly will now head to the desk of Democratic Gov. Josh Stein, potentially setting up a showdown with just a few days before the legislature is set to break for the summer recess.

State Rep. Allison Dahle (D-Wake) told the Washington Blade during a phone interview Monday that she was “as confident as I can be” that Stein will reject the bills and also that her Democratic colleagues will line up behind him to block Republicans if they try to override the governor’s veto, which would require support from three-fifths of the House and Senate.

At the same time, there is a good chance one or two members will decide the outcome. Holding 30 of the 50 Senate seats and 71 of the 120 House seats, Republicans can clear the three-fifths threshold so long as there are no defections or abstentions and at least one House Democrat joins with the GOP caucus to override a veto.

The drama begins! This just like Congress where the Republicans only have a few vote lead. But you see the Republican did a bait and switch... from a bill that had strong bipartisan support to one with a poison pill.

Support for NC bill against revenge porn loses Dem support once GOP adds unrelated anti-trans items

Most NC Senate Democrats vote present rather than support anti-trans items that GOP added to once popular legislation on revenge porn.

Carolina Public Press

by Sarah Michels

June 25, 2025

Tuesday, the state Senate passed a bill protecting North Carolinians from revenge or coerced pornography. Early drafts of the bill had unanimous bipartisan support in the state House, but in the end only Senate Republicans voted for it, due to several anti-trans amendments added to the legislation. 

Originally, House Bill 805 would have required website operators to obtain written consent and age verification from every participant featured in pornographic content before posting it online. It also would create a process by which people could request removal of content including them within 72 hours. 

It was designed to protect victims of coerced consent, instances where a person consents to a sexual act or distribution of pornographic content against their will through fraud or under duress.

I know back in 2011 when Connecticut was passing the gender inclusive non-discrimination legislation, the trans community was asked by legislators if the Republicans passed a poison pill amendment should we scrap the bill... we said pill it!

But when the bill reached the Senate, legislators made several changes that “muddied the waters,” Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch said.

What began as a bill to protect children from being exploited online was “hijacked, gutted and replaced with language that’s not just unrelated, but dangerous,” Batch said, referencing the anti-trans measures.

The vote was accompanied by hours of partisan drama ending with nearly all Democrats losing their rights to future votes on the bill.

See that is how the Republicans work... guess who gets blamed for a bill to ban revenge porn? And if the governor veto's the bill it will be all front page news... Governor is in favor of kiddy porn.

They let the bill get this far because they knew that if it had that amendment in committee it would have not made it out of committee and would have gotten a lot less attention back then, now it is front page material.

NPR reported...

A controversial state Senate bill restricting transgender access to bathrooms and locker rooms is dead for now.

The bill filed in March by a group of Senate Republicans has drawn comparisons to House Bill 2, the 2016 anti-transgender legislation that led to boycotts.

The new bill would require people to use bathrooms and other facilities that match their gender at birth. And it would ban transgender people from changing their birth certificates.

Senate leader Phil Berger said the new bill won't get a hearing ahead of a legislative deadline this week; bills that don't pass either the House or Senate by Thursday are considered dead under the legislature's rules.

See how that works... all local news outlets have articles on the bill.