Wow! Some people are REALLY invested in having men use women's bathrooms...

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@cjsummers No. Those are all reserved for Lesbians, not Transexuals.

@cjsummers :And women who identify has men will be welcomed to play on Men's teams....There are already standards set for Trans people participating in the Olympics, those standards are changing as they gain a better understanding of gender, hormones and performance. I suspect national sports leagues will, or have, adopted similar standards.

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This all comes from the lunacy of both the extremist sides of the country.There have been people using whatever bathroom they want for years in this country. It has never ever been a problem. Charlotte democrats passed an unneeded ordinance about bathrooms and gender. The NC republicans got mad and passed an equally unneeded law rebutting that Charlotte ordinance. It's all very stupid. Both sides should get rid of the ordinances and go back to the potty honor system. It's government overreach at its finest on both sides of the issue.

I'm Team Potty Honor System all the way!

Expect a major announcement soon about a Fortune 100 or 500 moving their headquarters from NC to Fort Mill, SC which is about 18 miles from Charlotte. The co. has reported an exceedingly dismal period of recruiting college graduates, especially from the Class of 2016. The law has been cited as the reason for not accepting the jobs. Do not rule out the strong possibility that the co, is a major bank. The only thing that could stop the move is a full repeal of HB2.

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they'll use whatever excuse they need to ruin anyone who pushes back against the pervert agenda in this country.

@cjsummers Charlotte is a major banking center. It along with cos. in the Resesrch Triangle area have been extremely fertile ground for jobs for new college graduates including MBAs and lawyers. In past years at they have typically received offers from NewYork, CA, and Seattle cos. They are graduates of Duke, UNC, Wake Forrest, NC State and other NC colleges. In past years, a great percentage of graduates stayed in NC. A great number of college graduates originally from NC returned to NC after they graduated from colleges in other states.Not so this year at all. They left for othe states like PA, NY, CA and the Pacific Northwest where there are not laws like in NC but rather a very forward, innovative, progressive environment. Wha makes the ACC decision today so important is that the ACC is headquartered in NC. The previous cancelations were significant and had a major impact. But the ACC decision will have an impact because other NC based cos.will follow unless the law is repealed.So far the cancellations have totaled about $400 million impactng lost wages, hotel rooms, restaurants etc. On that money there would have been sales tax collected. NC will have to make that money up some way, probably impacting the very same right wingers that want the law kept. There is a price to pay for stupidity and a mind that is nailed shut

@jimthompson The ace in the hole may turn out to be Republican Senator Burr from NC. The democrats seem to trust him as well as moderate republicans. He has stated a number of times the law has to go. He is now in a close race.The ace in the hole he is Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee. With all the military in NC that is a plum committee assignment. As voters start to realize they could lose that, they, including the governor, just might listen to what he has to say and repeal the law.

Just a side note:Johns-Hopkins stopped doing "gender reassignment" surgery years ago. In addition to a failure to produce any long term benefit, Dr. McHugh also cites the studies revealing that suicide rates among post-operative patients average twenty times higher than the rest of the population.www.wsj.com/articles /paul-mchugh-transge nder-surgery-isnt-th e-solution-1402"A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles"

The NC Governor drops his lawsuit against the US government, the first in a series of steps taking back this law?? We shall watch and see! www.npr.org/sections /thetwo-way/2016/09/ 19/494573314/north-c arolina-governo

The Southern Conference will be having a conference call on Thursday of their college presidents and athletic directors to discuss and probably a vote on moving some championship events from Ashville, NC to another state.
In the meantime the incumbent republican senator from NC and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is now in a race tested too close to call. He was ahead by 15 points the day before HB2 was signed into law.
I predict that with the mitary presence in NC there will be an uproar far greater than HB2 if the incumbent loses in November. It will be ugly.
I think there is now about a 60-40 ,and climbing, chance the law will be totally repealed in a few weeks if not sooner.As a side of e, the same senator was the only southern republican senator that voted to repeal Don't Ask Dont Tell.The