Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina has some nerve. Alarmed by the rising financial fallout from the discriminatory law he and Republican lawmakers hastily passed in March to bar transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity, the governor seemed desperate for an off-ramp last week.

On Friday, he offered to convene a special legislative session to repeal the law, which in addition to policing restroom use nullified local laws that protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination. There is a catch, however. Mr. McCrory insists that he will not support repeal unless Charlotte revokes the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance, enacted in February, which Republicans used as a reason to pass the now infamous state statute known as H.B. 2.

It was a desperate move by Mr. McCrory, who appears likely to lose his re-election bid in November, in large part for championing a measure based on the specious notion that transgender people are sexual predators.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/north-carolina-pays-a-price-for-bigotry.html

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