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Loretta Lynch Announces Federal Lawsuit Against NC, Tells Trans Americans ‘We See You’ – WATCH
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the Department of Justice will be filing a federal lawsuit against the state of North Carolina over the state’s anti-LGBT bathroom bill, HB 2. As previously reported, HB 2 prevents transgender citizens from using bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity.
Lynch excoriated HB 2 in her news conferences, denouncing the law as “state-sponsored discrimination.” She also spoke personally about the “beautiful” state of North Carolina, her home state, and assured transgender Americans that the DOJ and Obama administration support them in their fight for civil rights. “We see you. We stand with you…And please know that history is on your side,” said Lynch.
Lynch went on to paint transgender citizens’ struggle for the right to go to the bathroom, a right which most Americans take for granted, Lynch said, as part of a broader struggle for civil rights that includes the fights for racial equality and marriage equality.
Lynch said that pushback against civil rights historically come after progress has been achieved. Lynch compared HB 2 and similar bathroom bills in the U.S. to Jim Crow laws and bans on same-sex marriage.
Watch an excerpt from Lynch’s address, below.
And the full address is here:
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