North Carola Senate Reviv Attacks on LGBTQ+ North Carolians, This Time By Passg “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” Bill Even More Egreg Than Florida’s - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• N.C. SENATE PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO THIS MEAN FOR STUNTS?
• NORTH CAROLA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS HB 2 2.0
• NORTH CAROLA SENATE REVIV ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ NORTH CAROLIANS, THIS TIME BY PASSG “DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS” BILL EVEN MORE EGREG THAN FLORIDA’S
• NORTH CAROLA ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL BE LAW AFTER LEGISLATURE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S VETO
• ICYMI: NORTH CAROLA SENATE PASS DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS BILL; HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN URG HOE TO REJECT DISCRIMATORY BILL
• ANTI-GAY LAWS BRG BACKLASH MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH CAROLA
• GEIA, N.C. AND BEYOND: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CLASH OVER 'ANTI-GAY' BILLS

N.C. SENATE PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT DO THIS MEAN FOR STUNTS?

Pat McCrory signed to law a bill blockg anti-discrimatn l that would protect gay and transgenr people. The North Carola state Legislature has passed a law blockg lol ernments om passg anti-discrimatn l to grant protectns to gay and transgenr people.

NORTH CAROLA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS HB 2 2.0

The law a month after the cy of Charlotte passed a measure protectg gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people om beg discrimated agast by bs.

Amy Galey sponsored SB49, a new bill that prohibs discsns of genr and sexual inty classrooms om krgarten to fourth Carola’s Senate has add to the over 420 anti-LGBTQ bills troduced state legislatur natnwi 2023 wh SB49, emed a “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics. As reported by the Associated Prs Febary, Cooper said a statement, “…the last thg we need is to force the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ culture wars on our children and our state. “After Florida’s (Don’t Say Gay) bill, there was an crease bullyg and onle harassment for kids.

Here are five thgs to know about the ntroversial Parents’ Bill of Rights:Is a 'Don't Say Gay' bill? ”This language is siar to what Florida clud s Parental Rights Edutn bill, which opponents labelled the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

NORTH CAROLA SENATE REVIV ATTACKS ON LGBTQ+ NORTH CAROLIANS, THIS TIME BY PASSG “DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS” BILL EVEN MORE EGREG THAN FLORIDA’S

“We really see (the North Carola bill) as another “Don’t Say Gay” bill, ” said Craig Whe, who works as the supportive schools ordator at the Asheville-based Campaign for Southern Equaly. However, the last thg our state needs is another Republin polil ploy like the bathroom bill which hurt our people and st jobs, so let's keep the "Don't Say Gay" culture wars out of North Carola classrooms. North Carola’s newt piece of anti-LGBTQ legislatn—the “Don’t Say Gay” bill—isn’t likely to pass Gov.

NORTH CAROLA ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL BE LAW AFTER LEGISLATURE OVERRIS GOVERNOR'S VETO

”Those safe spac created by rg teachers may soon be a thg of the past, Carola’s newly troduced Hoe Bill 755, or the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, is part of a much larger nservative movement to crack down on LGBTQ rights through schools.

North Carola’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, siar to the famo Florida legislatn, prohibs teachers om talkg about genr inty and sexual orientatn K–3 classrooms. Lee stuck to that narrative durg a prs nference last month, argug the “Don’t Say Gay” bill is a way to ensure children are receivg “age-appropriate stctn. Teachers who try to support LGBTQ stunts, or gay, lbian, or transgenr teachers who mentn their personal life, are all at risk.

The “Don’t Say Gay” bill don’t currently prohib those kds of nversatns, but sends a clear msage: LGBTQ stunts and teachers are not wele public schools. Half of transgenr stunts were prevented om g their chosen name or pronouns school, while 70 percent were not allowed to e the school bathroom aligned wh their “Don’t Say Gay” bill would make schools even more dangero for LGBTQ youth, forcg teachers and staff to out transgenr stunts by notifyg their parents if they ask to be addrsed by a different genr pronoun. ”Parts of the bill also require schools to “tablish a procs for parents to learn about the nature and purpose of clubs and activi offered at their child’s school, ” which uld help nservative activists shut down Gay-Straight Allianc public schools.

ICYMI: NORTH CAROLA SENATE PASS DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS BILL; HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN URG HOE TO REJECT DISCRIMATORY BILL

But simply by troducg , Republins have already ma schools more unsafe for LGBTQ teachers and stunts as school boards bee ls likely to pass protectns for LGBTQ youth, teachers fear promotg equaly the classroom, and gay, lbian, and trans- and genr-nonbary stunts bee even more aaid to e to school. The measure revok lol gay and trans nondiscrimatn ordanc throughout the state, effectively legalizg anti-LGBTQ discrimatn, and forbids trans people om g the bathroom that aligns wh their genr inty. Evans, when validated a Colorado measure that forba municipali om passg gay nondiscrimatn ordanc.

” Jt like the law validated Romer, HB 2 “intifi persons by a sgle tra”—gay or trans inty—“and then ni them protectn across the board.

) The law’s attack on gays and bisexuals, however, is slightly subtler. The NCGA is nsirg SB49, which is very siar to a bill that passed the NC Hoe 2022 – and very siar to Florida's notor "Don't Say Gay or Trans" bill, the days and weeks ahead. Bis takg a toll on the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, the bill has alt a major enomic loss to North Carola as many bs have nceled plans to expand the state while popular sportg events have been nceled and film productns have moved to other stat.

ANTI-GAY LAWS BRG BACKLASH MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH CAROLA

We turn now to North Carola, where a new measure rtrictg protectns for gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people is beg lled the tought law of s kd the beg our story wh Wednday's dramatic emergency ssn of state Yang reports. We have also seen gays the ary issue beg rolved.

In a sgle day, the ernor and legislature of North Carola unveiled, liberated, passed, and signed to law a bill that activists have scribed as the most extreme anti-LGBT measure the untry — forcg transgenr people to bathrooms that differ om their genr inty and disablg ci om creatg laws protectg LGBT happened North Carola may have been startlg for s swiftns, but was a classic untermove the morn nflict over gay rights. It may force the Supreme Court to nont a qutn that for s has stubbornly refed to answer: What do the Constutn actually imply about gay rights? Relig eedom proposals are beg weighed nearly a dozen stat after the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

It’s very siar to laws already on the books Tennsee and Arkansas, all of which are refully word not to mentn gay people at all. In 1992, voters Colorado approved a nstutnal amendment prohibg any agency, school district, or lol ernment om protectg “homosexual, lbian or bisexual” people. Evans, reached the Supreme Court late 1995 and rulted a landmark victory for gay rights the next year.

GEIA, N.C. AND BEYOND: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CLASH OVER 'ANTI-GAY' BILLS

Courts generally don’t believe that gays and lbians are a class of people who serve special protectn unr the Constutn.

”Recent legal victori for gay rights have danced around this issue. Texas, the Supreme Court stck down anti-sodomy laws not bee they discrimated agast gay people, but bee the laws td on the “realm of personal liberty. ”In the gay marriage s, Uned Stat v.

“Jtice Kennedy squanred an important opportuny to leave a more endurg gay rights legacy, ” Universy of Washgton law profsor Peter Nilas wrote of the the cisn last while gay rights activists cheered the oute of the marriage s, the legal stat of LGBT people remas limbo. Evans, the Supreme Court ma a big al over how Colorado had sgled out gay people, by name, a piece of legislatn. They argued that the measure was clearly motivated by anti-gay anim, vlatg the Constutn’s Equal Protectn clse.