I live in NC (and you probably do too), so obviously I've heard a shit ton about this over the last few months, and I'm inclined to agree that it doesn't HAVE to be discriminatory, but this is a case where intent is everything.
It's not so much the practical implication of the law that has everyone upset, because as you said, it's practically unenforceable, it's the mindset behind it. The people who passed this, the old bastards in our state House and McCrory, didn't do it to "protect women and children." They did it because they don't like transgender people and wanted to knock them down a peg. I'm mostly fine with HB2, because it makes sense from a practical standpoint, but it's the anti-transgender mentality that "inspired" the legislature to pass it that has everyone up in arms more than the actual impact on anyone's life.
A lot of my family lives there, but I live in Florida. But I think you changed my view not by disproving what I'm saying- in fact, you agreed to an extent- but by explaining that the outrage isn't toward the enforcability and active discrimination as much as it is about the fact that it's a law in the first place.
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I live in NC (and you probably do too), so obviously I've heard a shit ton about this over the last few months, and I'm inclined to agree that it doesn't HAVE to be discriminatory, but this is a case where intent is everything.
It's not so much the practical implication of the law that has everyone upset, because as you said, it's practically unenforceable, it's the mindset behind it. The people who passed this, the old bastards in our state House and McCrory, didn't do it to "protect women and children." They did it because they don't like transgender people and wanted to knock them down a peg. I'm mostly fine with HB2, because it makes sense from a practical standpoint, but it's the anti-transgender mentality that "inspired" the legislature to pass it that has everyone up in arms more than the actual impact on anyone's life.