North Carolina’s new transgender bathroom law violates the Civil Rights Act, the Department of Justice said in a letter to Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday.
According to the letter (posted by WRAL), McCrory and the state of North Carolina are “engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender state employees.”
“Title VII [of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] prohibits an employer from discriminating against an individual on the basis of sex and from otherwise resisting the full enjoyment of Title VII rights. Federal courts and administrative agencies have applied Title VII to discrimination against transgender individuals based on sex, including gender identity.”
