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Voices of North Carolina: The Transgender Community Speaks Out
This week, HRC is lifting up the voices of North Carolinians whose lives are affected by the dangerous and discriminatory bill (HB 2) that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed into law last week.
The first of those stories is from Madeline Goss, an openly transgender woman from Raleigh and a volunteer with HRC. Last week, she testified about the harmful impact HB 2 would have on her life and the transgender community.
“I can’t use the men’s room. I won’t go back to the men’s room. It is unsafe for me there. People like me die in there,” Goss said.
On March 23, Governor McCrory signed into law an outrageous and unprecedented anti-LGBT bill that eliminates existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people; prevents such provisions from being passed by cities in the future; and forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity, putting 4.5 billion dollars in federal funding under Title IX at risk. Read more about how this bill puts federal funding at risk here.
North Carolina is now the first state in the country to enact such a law attacking transgender students, even after several similar proposals were rejected across the country this year — including a high-profile veto by the Republican governor of South Dakota on a very similar bill.
If you would like to share your own personal story of discrimination, please share here.
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