So me personally, I'm about the purest form of an independent you can think of. There's **** that liberals do I don't agree with, and there's **** Conservative I don't agree with, and this happens to be one of them. There's no documented proof that transexuals using the wrong bathroom is a public health crisis. Now, trying to lump that into a general conversation about having separate locker rooms or etc is not the point. The point is that they created a law that's derive of appeasing the evangelical right in their state and what got them voted in. it's not different than the federal government forcing schools to have gender neutral bathrooms. That **** is wrong too.
The problem is discrimination, a law did not need to be created because nobody gave a fluck about that chit prior to that! You can tell they did that chit from a dumb *** religious perspective, cause they were willing to lose all that money to appease a certain group. That's why they lost the governorship, cause they're more people that think like me when you see the government do dumb chit to appease a certain group. They tried to do that chit in GA, and they X that, real quick.
I couldn't care less about how "middle of the road" you think you are. Being "independent" is not a substitute for intelligence.
You said you are against discrimination. Okay, great. Lets pin a moral medal on you. I just want to know how against discrimination are you? We currently carry out sexual discrimination as it concerns intimate facilities (bathroom, locker room, shower, dorms). Are you against this discrimination? If you aren't, why?
And you're just wrong. The North Carolina law EXPLICITLY allows transgender people to use the bathroom they have transitioned to. So a transgender woman is allowed to use the woman's bathroom. I'm sorry you want to believe this is about "Christian hate" or "Christian ignorance." There are legit reasons why atheists don't want to share a shower with a person of the other ***. Especially women. Which is really what this is about. A fear of "men" more than any religious crap.
And you apparently are asking for "gender neutral bathrooms." We either are allowed to have *** based discrimination in bathrooms or we aren't. If we are, it makes absolutely NO SENSE to say, "Nobody with a ***** is allowed in the girl's shower, unless that ***** is attached to somebody that doesn't fully identify as a man. and then come on in, the water 's warm." Either the government has an interest in separating penises and vaginas or it doesn't. It can't be both. So if you're saying separating them is "discrimination," then the federal government, under your world view, SHOULD be "forcing schools to have gender neutral bathrooms." That is literally what the Constitution mandates.