infinite9: I support North Carolina's governor's decision to sign it. It will protect against false claims of discrimination. The freedom to be a homosexual or to get your gizmo turned inside out does not mean that you have the ability to use state-run coercion to get others to roll over for you.
Discrimination (by this context) is understandably bad but that does not mean that private businesses should be treated as indentured servants and that does not mean there should be room for false accusations that lead to wrongful lawsuits and punishments. The trouble with this whole "tolerance" movement is that it has less to do with fighting intolerance and more to do with replacing it with another intolerance as well as promoting forced inclusion which will lead to backlash against various groups like homosexuals.
By the way, surgery does not change chromosomes but according to the LGBT zealots, I would be "transphobic" or bigoted since they seem to believe that science is a "social construct" made up by "privileged" white patriarchy.
So many problems with this.
1. It's not about getting others to roll over. It's about being treated as a person, like everybody else.
2. Actually, discrimination does need to be forbidden. Otherwise, you can have people who are unable to access a type of service because everybody who does discriminates against that person.
3. It's also worth noting that the bill mandates discrimination in public buildings, which people are sometimes required by law to be in, sometimes for extended periods of time. Imagine you are a transgender high school student in a public school, and your parents can't afford to send you to a private school. You can't use the boys room because your birth certificate says you're female. You can't use the girls room because you look like a boy and the girls are uncomfortable. As a result, you can't use the bathroom *at all* during the day, and as a result, you have to hold it for 7+ hours, which is just not feasible (and can cause health problems).
4. For the upteenth time, chromosomes
*DO NOT MATTER*. In fact, all the science points to transgender and intersex people existing, and, as far as I know, every viable sex chromosome karyotype can yield both binary sex phenotypes, as well as nonbinary ones.