NC Governor Signs Bill Repealing Harmful Charlotte Bathroom Ordinance | Eastern NC Now

    The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Kellie Fiedorek regarding the North Carolina General Assembly's bipartisan passage of the Public Facilities and Security Act, which invalidates a city of Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed men to enter public bathrooms and locker rooms designated for women, endangering women, children and the elderly. Gov. Pat McCrory's decision Wednesday to sign the bill ensures that business owners will no longer be subject to substantial fines and potential jail time should they seek to protect their patrons' safety and security or operate their businesses consistent with their core convictions:

• "We commend the governor for keeping his promise to immediately address the Charlotte ordinance to ensure that North Carolina businesses, women, and children are protected. Sixty-nine percent of North Carolinians agreed that the ordinance was unreasonable and unsafe in forcing women and young girls to undress, shower, or engage in other private activities in the presence of men. The privacy rights and safety of North Carolina citizens shouldn't be cast aside or used as a political pawn for special interest groups that desire to impose their agenda to create a genderless society. The governor's decision to sign the General Assembly's bill repealing the ordinance was just common sense."

    Because of the leadership of the North Carolina General Assembly and the governor after the assembly's special session Wednesday, the new law will clarify that bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers are limited to persons of the same biological sex. It also clarifies that the state, not local cities and municipalities, is responsible to determine the employment relationship in order to avoid a patchwork of confusing local employment laws that would be harmful to commerce, labor, and trade in the state.

• Pronunciation guide: Fiedorek (Fuh-DOHR'-eck)

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Should Americans be thankful for North Carolinians setting precedent in taking a stand for their state's right to manage the safety of their public facilities, where separation of the sexes remains, or should they follow Bruce Springsteen's lead and boycott the state as bigots since they will not allow grown Transgender men to use the same bathrooms /locker rooms as pre-pubescent girls?

  North Carolina is right to control the separation of the sexes as a matter of decorum and safety.

  North Carolina is a bigoted state to not require that children of opposite sexes share the same public facilities with adults of the opposite sex, although misidentified - the Transgender.

  I generally prefer the natural environs of the vacant, although rather public, large tree.

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