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Justice Department Sues North Carolina Over Its Bathroom Law
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The U.S. Justice Department has sued North Carolina over its law regulating the bathroom choices of transgender people, calling it a violation of the federal Civil Rights Act and seeking an injunction.
The state’s governor and legislature “created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals who simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Monday at a news conference in Washington. “This action is about a great deal more than just bathrooms. This is about the dignity and respect we accord our fellow citizens and the laws that we, as a people and as a country, have enacted to protect them.”