Cities are not separate sovereigns from the state. They are a creation of the state and subservient to it. Charlotte attempted to pass a law that nullfied state law. That was an illegal law. The Legislature had to put them back into line.
This really is no different that the sanctuary city issue. Some city council passes a law that says it’s not going to follow state and/or federal law on detaining felons just because they are illegal immigrants. They’re getting people killed, and then they’re letting them out to kill again.
Now, Charlotte passes a law changing the logical prohibition of men from being in female facilities. As with the felon laws in sanctuary citizens, they have created a real threat.
I have READ what Charlotte’s law became. They removed from their law a restriction, and then they added sexual orientation and gender identity to their equal treatment provisions.
They did not even require that the people going into a restroom be dressed like their gender identity, have had surgery to implement their GI, have any cosmetics to appear to be their GI. No place....and I’m serious...NO PLACE did they require ANYTHING of ANYONE entering a facility. IOW, they made it LEGAL for a man to enter a female facility and simply have to say that he feels like being a woman.
I am not making this up, redwulf. It is fact. No requirement whatsoever.
And, being very honest, the North Carolina law restoring this does say that they must be the gender ON THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE. If these men will go to the trouble of changing their birth certificate...and it is legal to do so...they can then enter those facilities.
I don’t favor that, but at least it sorts out those who will take some kind of minimal step to ACTUALLY identify with their so-called new gender. It removes from consideration those who would simply walk in, peep at the girls, rape the girls, and leave.