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On Top Of The News Email:news@arubatoday.com website: www.arubatoday.com Tel:+297 582-7800 Tuesday, May 10, 2016

US Sues North Carolina over Transgender Bathroom Law

EMERY P. DALESIO
GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A
potentially epic clash
over transgender rights
took shape Monday when
the  U.S. Justice Depart-
ment sued North Carolina
over the state’s bathroom
law after the governor re-
fused to back down.
In unusually forceful lan-
guage,  U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral Loretta Lynch said
North Carolina’s law requir-
ing transgender people

Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division listens at left as Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks during a
news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 9, 2016. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s administra-
tion sued the federal government Monday in a fight for a state law that limits protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people.

                                                                                                                                                            (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

to  use  public restrooms     nation” and is aimed at “a      fered far more than its fair  fit to society, and all it does
and showers correspond-       problem that doesn’t exist.”    share,” she said, speaking    is harm innocent Ameri-
ing to the gender on their    “What this law does is inflict  directly to residents of her  cans.”
birth certificate amounts to  further indignity on a popu-    native state.
“state-sponsored discrimi-    lation that has already suf-    “This law provides no bene-       Continued on page 3
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