US Police Stop Lesbian Using Female Toilet as Part of New “Anti-LGBT” Laws
The new HB 2 bill was passed into law in North Carolina last month, meaning police are now enforcing “toilet checks” to ensure only people can only use the toilet assigned to the gender matches that of their birth certificate.
Now, footage of a police officer forcibly removing a woman from the female bathroom has begun doing the rounds on the internet, alongside comments of how the “religious freedom” bill has the potential to be humiliating.
The woman, an alleged lesbian, is called “sir” by the officers and asked ID to prove her gender.
The law states it is:
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SINGLE-SEX MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY BATHROOM AND 2 CHANGING FACILITIES IN SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES AND TO CREATE 3 STATEWIDE CONSISTENCY IN REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT AND PUBLIC 4 ACCOMMODATIONS.
The law has naturally been vilified, with upset also rife over similar Mississippi law passed earlier this month. Georgia also came under fire, but the law was axed at the last minute.
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