It turns out North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory isn't only pro-discrimination, he's also quite daft. Thursday he was whining to Fox & Friends that North Carolina isn't is any different from Houston, which is hosting this year’s NCAA championships. Houston voters, of course, rejected an equal rights ordinance last year that would have provided nondiscrimination protections to people based on 15 different characteristics, including gender identity and sexual orientation. That’s what led McCrory to this quandary:
“And there are no protests for boycotts of Houston, Texas, during the Final Four basketball tournament. Nor should there be," McCrory said.
Yeah, another lie from McCrory. What Houston voters did was repeal a new ordinance that added nondiscrimination protections, essentially maintaining the status quo. North Carolina lawmakers, on the other hand, passed a law that changed the status quo, making the situation worse. It was an effort to proactively ensure that discriminating against LGBT citizens would be legal.
Also, Houston's results only applied to Houston—it was a localized battle. McCrory and his minions barred all jurisdictions statewide from enacting nondiscrimination protections at the local level. So yeah, North Carolina was a lesson in government overreach.
What Houston did was unfortunate on many levels, but it wasn't a blanket statewide invitation to discriminate and it didn't statutorily require transgender individuals to use the wrong bathroom (i.e. the one associated with the gender on their birth certificate).
Here's what was similar, both efforts used fearmongering tactics to scare parents into believing that transgender women are predatory and that nondiscrimination protections would put their children at risk. It’s both reckless and completely unfounded. And it’s negative messages like these that put transgender persons at greater risk for being bullied and taking their own lives.
Pat McCrory is now fundraising off that message and running for re-election on that platform, which pretty much makes him scum. See for yourself...