RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After weeks of taking a beating from critics over North Carolina’s law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, Gov. Pat McCrory adopted a strategy long favored by Southern conservative governors: He went after the federal government. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — With two milestone developments in the federal government’s policy on gender issues, last week was heady for transgender people and advocates. First, an impassioned Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the government was suing North Carolina for discriminating ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly a dozen people were arrested in North Carolina’s Legislative Building during a second swell of demonstrations led by civic and religious leaders opposing the state’s law limiting protections for LGBT people. Police arrested 11 protesters ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — From locker rooms and sex education classes to dress codes and overnight field trips, many U.S. public schools already are balancing the civil rights of transgender students with any concerns that classmates, parents and community members ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Opponents of North Carolina’s new law preventing local governments from passing LGBT anti-discrimination protections and directing which bathrooms transgender people can use are getting together in Raleigh to push for its repeal. The Forward Together movement led ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers offered bills before a self-imposed deadline Tuesday addressing the cost of college education, penalties for “sanctuary cities,” economic incentives and worker pay. House and Senate members filed close to 120 pieces of legislation ...

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Leaders of North Carolina’s public universities met Tuesday to grapple with a looming threat that the federal government could withhold billions of dollars if the state loses a legal battle over transgender students and bathrooms. ...

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There was a showdown in Houston last fall. This spring, North Carolina became the battleground. By now, confrontations have flared across the country over whether to protect or curtail the right of transgender people to use public restrooms in accordance with ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday that would require all single-stall public restrooms to be gender neutral. The vote came hours after North Carolina’s governor sued the federal government to defend a law in that state requiring ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — In suing her home state for discriminating against transgender people, Attorney General Loretta Lynch invoked the defining civil rights struggles of the last century and made clear that the federal government sees its dispute with North Carolina as ...

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