On Thursday, lawmakers in North Carolina passed a bill repealing the HB2 act. The “House Bill 2” is a bill, known for it’s anti-LGBT+ agenda; it forces Transgender individuals to use restrooms pertaining to the gender on their birth certificate, despite their gender identity. This act caused an overabundance of problems for North Carolina, such as: the loss of jobs, which cost the state millions of dollars from abandoned job-expansion plans. The new bill, HB142, now blocks government officials from executing rules on bathrooms, changing rooms, and public showers, unless the General Assembly is in agreeance. The new law does not completely answer the “restroom question,” it does not mention what people of the Transgender community are to do. The biggest problem this new bill introduces is its prevention of local governments from passing nondiscriminatory laws to protect the LGBT+ community, until December 2020. Currently, there are no federal laws providing any protection towards people associated with different gender identities and sexual orientations; it allows businesses to discriminate LGBT+ individuals and not provide services for them.
Questions:
- Do you think the HB142 act was passed to help the LGBT+ community or to increase the state’s GDP?
(GDP - Gross Domestic Product; the total value of service and goods produced in a year.)
- What do you think about the absence of protection laws for the LGBT+ community?
My Opinions:
Disgustingly, it’s clear to me the Republican legislators (not generally) who passed this bill care far more about money and sports than a community who has been suffering excruciating inequality for many years. I mentioned sports because last year, after the HB2 law was passed, the NCAA moved its championship events out of North Carolina due to the law’s discriminatory features. The NCAA set a deadline for the repeal of the HB2 law, which happened to be on Thursday, or they would no longer allow North Carolina to host it’s games. It really seems basketball had a very huge influence over this bill. It’s infuriating yet dismal that we need laws to protect people, simply because their color, gender, national origin, race, and sexual orientation is “different” and doesn't appease to “social normalities” in the United States. It’s horrible to think that even some children, who are unaware of this problem, have to one day depend greatly on federal protection laws.
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Good topic choice and super job in leading discussion!
I think both because its going to help them by letting still have a job and be able to keeping working but it also going to raise the state's GDP because they get to keep most of the workers now because they get to stay even though they can be transgender. Well even if there are protection laws for the LGBT community there are going to still be people out there that are going to discriminate them, but i do think that need some protections laws.
Criminals don't look up laws before they do a crime. I feel that you should just leave them alone and also forget about all of it people are people and we need to just leave everyone alone. Just think if you were different you would want people to love you for you so i think we should just forget about all of it and let them live their life.
I think they passed the bill to help their GDP and get their sports events back. I think that they should use the bathroom of the gender on your birth certificate.
If you are a woman at birth, that is the bathroom you should use your whole life and if you are born a man, you use the men's restroom. I think that some people will not like this bust it will reduce the risk of sexual assault.
I think it could go either way, the act could help the LGTB community but it could also help the GDP of the state. Its not right that these people are getting treated poorly, our government should help them.
Agreed! Don't you think it's dismal how horribly people can be treated merely because they don't conform to social standards?
I think that it is a good thing that people have to use the restroom based on the gender of their birth certificate because it is going to cause a lot less problems in the sexual harassment area. I think that it may be uncomfortable for them but it is the right thing because it wont allow pedophiles to take advantage of the system.
To begin with, criminals don't use and research laws before committing a crime. A criminal is someone who breaks them, not follows them. If a pedophile were to molest someone in a bathroom, in a court, these type of people would never win the case by saying "By law, I was able to use the bathroom."
The reason why people who are transgender, as you believe: "go through all the trouble and spend all the money to change" is because they don't feel comfortable with the gender they were born as. Many would describe it as feeling trapped in a body that just isn't theirs; this feeling is known as Gender Dysphoria. For example: Anytime you would look in a mirror, you feel as if the person looking back at you is a complete stranger, almost alien like. It's an unimaginable feeling, but it doesn't make it invalid or unreal.
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