The Feds Just Told North Carolina to Stop Discriminating Against LGBT People

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The US government on Wednesday warned North Carolina state officials that they could lose a helluva lot in federal funding if they don't cut the shit and give transgender people safe and proper access to bathrooms, as the New York Times reports.

The Justice Department delivered the warning via a letter to Governor Pat McCrory. A copy obtained by the Charlotte Observer shows the feds are giving the state until the end of the day Monday to respond.

Specifically, Vanita Gupta—the top civil rights watchdog in America—wrote that the "the state is engaging in a pattern or practice of discrimination against transgender state employees," and cites Title VII, the federal law outlawing bias on the basis of sex.

People across America were incensed when McGrory signed the bill into law on March 23. It passed in the state House 82–26 and the state Senate 32–0. Senate Democrats actually walked out of the assembly in protest, and on March 28, three people filed a federal lawsuit against the North Carolina governor, arguing the new law is discriminatory and unconstitutional, because, well, it is.