Bathrooms have become a major political battleground in America. On Monday, May 9, North Carolina officials sued the Obama administration to defend the state's anti-transgender bathroom law, meaning the debate over transgender people in bathrooms will go to court. The lawsuit followed a flurry of action on Wednesday, May 4, alone. The Department of Justice told North Carolina that its anti-LGBTQ law was in violation of federal civil rights law by preventing transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity. Several hundred miles away, Oxford, Alabama, after facing legal threats, repealed a law that threatened to lock up trans people who...
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