RALEIGH (AP) — The first North Carolina municipalities are acting to expand LGBT rights again a month since the expiration of a moratorium on nondiscrimination ordinances agreed to years ago as a compromise to do away with the state’s “bathroom ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) A federal judge said June 25 he was “at a loss” to understand how transgender North Carolinians are being harmed by a compromise law that undid the state’s “bathroom bill” but also prevented local governments from enacting new LGBT ...

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When North Carolina’s lawmakers hurried HB2 through the legislature in a one-day special session last April, it originally contained a provision that prohibited workers from suing their former employers under state law for cases of wrongful termination based on discrimination. ...

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North Carolina’s effort to make transgender individuals use public bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender, rather than the one they identify with, has suffered a potentially significant setback, thanks to a recent decision out of the 4th U.S. Circuit ...

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