The Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to stop North Carolina from implementing a law that forces transgender people to use the bathroom consistent with the gender on their birth certificate. AP reports:
A filing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in North Carolina says the Justice Department is likely to be successful in getting the law overturned based on a recent ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals involving a transgender student's bathroom access in Virginia.
North Carolina lawmakers made only minor changes in the law last week, allowing people to sue in state courts if they believe they have faced employment discrimination. The bathroom provision was not changed.
Last week, a federal judge blocked Mississippi's anti-LGBT from going into effect.