“'Keep the men out of the ladies’ rooms!'” That’s 33-year-old North Carolinian Aaron Fitt impersonating the pearl-clutching right-wingers of his state. Their support of the month-old “bathroom bill” HB2, which virtually encourages discrimination against LGBT people, has cost NC music fans of all kinds, with high-profile acts like Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr, Pearl Jam, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas cancelling shows in the state since its inception. Like the state legislature that created it, Fitt says, HB2 “stinks.” What does it entail? Outside of the stipulation that trans men and women must use bathrooms for the gender they were assigned at birth, it also overrides an anti-discrimination...
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