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This trans man, JD Sheffield, who resides in North Carolina can now use the same public restroom your grandmother, wife and daughter use.
Too bad Seawitch isn't around to see this.
Last edited by DollyLongstaff (3/25/2016 2:58 pm)
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To quote one of Keep's favorite sayings, "You can't fix stupid".
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Keep's a perfect example of that being true.
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We are all human (except for those Aliens among us) we all poop and pee and I don't care who does what where. Just do it behind the closed door.
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I could not agree more bjeje! Just shut the door lol.
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And now the financial hurt begins
PayPal Holdings Inc (PYPL.O) on Tuesday canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and invest $3.6 million in the area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens.The digital payment company's protest is the first by a major business after North Carolina became the first state last month to enact a measure requiring people to use bathrooms or locker rooms in schools and other public facilities that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity.The law, which overturned a Charlotte city ordinance, was widely interpreted as an attack on LGBT rights. State lawmakers also voted to prohibit local governments from enacting anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity."The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture," Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said in a statement.In a letter on March 29, founders and chief executives of more than a hundred companies, including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation.Earlier in March, the payment processor announced plans to open the operations center in Charlotte and employ 400 skilled workers there. It was set to invest more than $3.6 million in the Charlotte area by the end of 2017, according to a news release on the governor's website.After PayPal's decision, North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, who like McCrory is a Republican, defended the law."If our action in keeping men out of women's bathrooms and showers protected the life of just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted, then it was worth it," he said in a statement.PayPal said it is now looking for another site for the center and has not yet made a decision on location. (Reporting by Nandita Bose in Chicago and Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Editing by Bill Rigby and David Gregorio)
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I hope something works so they reverse this blatant discrimination!
Included among corporations denouncing the legislation were MGM Resorts International, Nissan, Toyota, Tyson Foods, AT&T, IBM and Levi Strauss & Co.
Thanks for posting this Dolly and 'NE'!
Last edited by Spunky (4/05/2016 8:00 pm)
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I think Mississippi joined these lunatics today (but I could be wrong) I'm tired LOL
When established tech companies want to set up shop, it doesn't do your state well to piss 'em off. (They usually travel in packs)
I also like that NY and CT have denied non essential state travel to NC.
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You're right...according to the NYT this is what Mississippi did today.
The measure signed by Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi allows churches, religious charities and privately held businesses to decline services to people if doing so would violate their religious beliefs on marriage and gender.
These people are such racists and should be punished harshly for their stupid discrimination! Hope that all big businesses moves out...we will take all their business here in the north east!
Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, under pressure from business interests, two weeks ago vetoed a similar bill passed by the State Legislature.
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I am so grateful that these businesses won't tolerate this discrimination. It is the best way to make these states change their stance or pay the consequences.
I am also grateful that I live in an area that finds these discrimination laws intolerable. Remember last year when Governor Pence (Indiana) signed that Religious Freedom Restoration Act for Indiana? The backlash in my state was immediate. One week later, he had to revise the law to prevent discrimination to the LGBT community. People in the area of Indiana I live (NW Indiana, 30 minutes from Chicago) can't stand Governor Pence & hopefully he will be gone in the next election. The problem is, aside from NW Indiana, Indiana is a Republican state for the most part. But hopefully people realize that there are consequences for laws that promote inequality.
But I worry that if the were to become POTUS things may change?
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NC bathroom obssessed Republicans BUSTED by Fact checking.
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.— Chris Sgro on Thursday, March 17th, 2016 in a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact.
Politifact, in partnership with The News&Observer, did a fact check.
Here's what they found:
The entire state of Maryland and some of the largest cities in the country, including New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Seattle and Austin, Texas, have rules banning discrimination against transgender people in public accommodation, including bathrooms. More than 200 cities and counties also ban workplace discrimination against transgender people.
A dozen state public school systems and dozens of college campuses also have ordinances banning discrimination against transgender people, including in bathrooms.
After spending hours combing through conservative blogs and family values websites dedicated to news about transgender bathroom ordinances, we were able to confirm three cases in the United States in the last 17 years in which a biological male was convicted of a crime that involved him in a women’s bathroom or locker room and dressed as a woman.
It’s unclear if any of the three identified as transgender women, but none of those cases happened in cities where it would’ve been legal for a transgender woman to use the women’s room anyway. And none involved sexual assault or rape.
We haven’t found any instances of criminals convicted of using transgender protections as cover in the United States. Neither have any left-wing groups or right-wing groups.
Last edited by DollyLongstaff (4/07/2016 6:53 am)
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The Boss rocks! (n more ways than one).
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The NBA also said they would not have the All Star Game in 2017 in NC.