Nope. That's not how it happened.
The mayor of Charlotte, NC, Jennifer Roberts, is a super liberal. She and her buddy (a registered sex offender, by the way) decided to push this and get an ordinance passed to allow men into ladies rooms and showers.
Roberts was told not to do it by the governor but she did anyway. Now she claims she had no idea it would be a problem. Dumb liberal.
You say no, and yet she did.
And the push back had to be something that claimed even more for the state than to specifically pre-empt such an ordinance putting things back to the status quo?
This sounds like a “king of the hill” game. They let themselves get baited into a game of who can “virtue signal” the brightest.