North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature, which earlier this year passed a bill curbing legal protections for LGBT people, met in a special session last week to repeal the law — and then failed to do so. The Republicans had plenty of reasons to revisit HB2, which they passed in March. It included a provision mandating that transgender people use public restrooms that correspond to their gender at birth and not their gender identity — which violated federal anti-discrimination protections. It also...
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