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North Carolina governor’s misleading claim about his executive order and the LGBT law

The Washington Post: North Carolina has become a battleground for LGBT rights after the state passed an anti-discriminatory law that excluded protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The law is best known for requiring transgender people to use the bathroom in public buildings that match the gender on their birth certificate.

The backlash was swift and intense. McCrory issued an executive order intended to assuage the concerns of those who believed the law would legalize rampant discrimination. He said he wanted to set straight the “great deal of misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion.” Yet his announcement on April 12 added to the confusion as to what actually changed.

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