The Charlotte ordinance said businesses couldn’t choose, they had to let men use their bathrooms. So if we let Charlotte choose, like you said, businesses would be forced to let men use their women’s bathrooms. The NC state law lets businesses choose with publicly owned bathrooms/areas being separated by sex in an sane way.
Freegards
Houston tried pushing that as well, but a vote was forced and it was defeated at the polls, and Houston is a liberal city.
Making a State law over the issue is idiotic.