New Orleans will host 2017 NBA All-Star game

[Paulius]

That miami heat parade in 2012 was hilarious lmao

 

[dez]

everyone has been pulling out of north carolina
Stupid ass lawmakers didnt see that coming did they?

Good job Silver

Yeah Mayor McCrory has cost the city millions.. Not just this, corporations have been pulling out and leaving the city... Artists don't perform here... All for this bathroom bullshit that really wasn't a problem until they made it one..

 

[elcheato]

There's more to the bill that just bathrooms. That's the headliner, but other parts of it are just as bad

 

[HitmanCapone]

Yeah Mayor McCrory has cost the city millions.. Not just this, corporations have been pulling out and leaving the city... Artists don't perform here... All for this bathroom bullshit that really wasn't a problem until they made it one..

That's bullshit.  They shouldn't be losing these things simply because someone is finally doing what's right.  If you were born a man than you're a man and if you were born a woman than you're a woman.  This whole generation needs to get over themselves and stop being pussies I don't care if something offends you, man the fuck up cupcake.

 

[Giantmetfan07]

There's more to the bill that just bathrooms. That's the headliner, but other parts of it are just as bad

 
^ This. 

"The new law also nullified local ordinances around the state that would have expanded protections for the LGBT community.
 
The state has long had laws regulating workplace discrimination, use of public accommodations, minimum wage standards and other business issues. The new law – known as HB2, the Charlotte bathroom bill or, more officially, as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act – makes it illegal for cities to expand upon those state laws, as more than a dozen cities had done, including Charlotte, Raleigh, Chapel Hill and Durham.
 
North Carolina’s new law sets a statewide definition of classes of people who are protected against discrimination: race, religion, color, national origin, age, handicap or biological sex as designated on a person’s birth certificate. Sexual orientation – people who are gay – was never explicitly protected under state law and is not now, despite recent court decisions that legalized same-sex marriage.
 
Transgender people who have not taken surgical and legal steps to change the gender noted on their birth certificates have no legal right under state law to use public restrooms of the gender with which they identify. Cities and counties no longer can establish a different standard. Critics of the Charlotte ordinance cite privacy concerns and say it was “social engineering” to allow people born as biological males to enter women’s restrooms.
 
McCrory’s office says businesses aren’t limited by the bill, and that private companies and private universities can adopt new or keep existing nondiscrimination policies. Private businesses can establish their own practices concerning LGBT employees and customers; the new law does not allow so-called “public policy common law” complaints in state courts to challenge those practices.
 
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article68401147.html#storylink=cpy"
 

 

[bosoxlover12]

That's bullshit.  They shouldn't be losing these things simply because someone is finally doing what's right.  If you were born a man than you're a man and if you were born a woman than you're a woman.  This whole generation needs to get over themselves and stop being pussies I don't care if something offends you, man the fuck up cupcake.

smfh get out of the dark ages.

 

[dez]

That's bullshit.  They shouldn't be losing these things simply because someone is finally doing what's right.  If you were born a man than you're a man and if you were born a woman than you're a woman.  This whole generation needs to get over themselves and stop being pussies I don't care if something offends you, man the fuck up cupcake.

Who's mans ..

 

[HitmanCapone]

smfh get out of the dark ages.

It has nothing to do with being in the dark ages.  Just because you feel like doing something doesn't mean you should be able to and as a father of a girl there is absolutely no way I'm letting any man go into the bathroom with her.  We've already had atleast one reported case of a man pretending to identify as a woman so he could take pictures of women of all ages.   Does some little girl need to be raped for you to actually start using your brain?
 
It's time for you to stop being a pussy and actually grow a pair

 

[Pugz]

except most transgenders are you know, not into females.

 

[HitmanCapone]

except most transgenders are you know, not into females.

I don't care who they are or aren't into.  I don't have a problem with that but Im a very firm believer in having to go into whatever bathroom is on your drivers lisense.

 

[Pugz]

and when their license says the sex they currently are, your argument becomes invalid.

 

[brett05]

The NBA looks bad with this decision.

 

[CoachAF]

The NBA looks bad with this decision.

 
I completely agree. Instead of pulling out of Charlotte, why not use the event as a way to promote the other side that's being harmed by the bill. They would have a weekend where the sports world is looking at them and they can use that stage to promote their views. 
 
This issue has been around here in Houston for quite some time before HB2 in NC. Our former mayor wrote and passed the HERO legislation in Houston doing the same stuff. I was upset at first with all of the coverage it was getting. Then I listened to others views and points and my POV has changed quite a bit. transgenders have been using the opposite sex restrooms forever. It has never been an issue before. It wasn't an issue until legislators started passing laws protecting their rights to do so. I don't think these laws really change anything. Guess what? Transgenders in Charlotte are still probably using the other sex RR's. I think we have let fear-mongering people in our lives impact our opinions and control what we think. Rational dialogue needs to occur in order for true change to happen. 
 
The NBA pulling the ASG out of Charlotte doesn't create that open dialogue, it only further entrenches both sides to where no real change will ever happen. Again, the NBA should have used their stage to promote equal rights. They would have accomplished more that way IMO. 

 

[HitmanCapone]

and when their license says the sex they currently are, your argument becomes invalid.

Not really because I highly doubt some idiot would go that far but than again in today's world you really never know but it would be a step in the right direction.  

 

[buzzy]

Not really because I highly doubt some idiot would go that far but than again in today's world you really never know but it would be a step in the right direction.  

 
 
Why the fuck would you call them idiots? They're not doing it because they think it's a funny joke to have another gender on their license.
 
 
I personally know someone who had their gender changed on their birth certificate/ in the registry of births.

 

[Pugz]

Not really because I highly doubt some idiot would go that far but than again in today's world you really never know but it would be a step in the right direction.  

you can take your shitty logic and leave.

 

[brett05]

 

 
The NBA pulling the ASG out of Charlotte doesn't create that open dialogue, it only further entrenches both sides to where no real change will ever happen. Again, the NBA should have used their stage to promote equal rights. They would have accomplished more that way IMO. 

Allowing anyone to use whatever bathroom they wish is not equal rights.  The rights of those that wish to use facilities with their biological equals would be in violation and in greater number than without.

 

[CoachAF]

Allowing anyone to use whatever bathroom they wish is not equal rights.  The rights of those that wish to use facilities with their biological equals would be in violation and in greater number than without.

 
Is it your rights that are being violated though? or your comfort ? What are your rights when it comes to a restroom? There is a gray line here that I think has always existed whether the laws addressed it or not. Personally, I don't care who goes in what restroom as long as they give me my privacy. I have NEVER had an issue with that in all 32 years of my life. That's not to say there aren't issues with it, but I feel like they are very few and far in between. Yes, I have kids and worry for them daily. But I don't worry for them in this regard. I think this is not as big of a deal as the media wants us to believe it is. Just my thoughts though, I understand and respect the other side's opinions. 

 

[bosoxlover12]

I just find it hysterical that HitmanCapone's point is that transgenders have to use their biological bathroom, because otherwise creepy men will rape girls in the womans bathrooms
 
What about the man-turned-woman transgender, who wears drag makeup and dresses -- you think they should be forced to go to the mens bathrooms too? I can guarantee you that there is a significantly higher chance of a transwoman getting beat up in a mans bathroom by sexist assholes than a guy pretending to be a transwoman entering a woman's bathroom to be a creep/rapist.  Like, 1000x more likely.
 
Just let people go to the bathroom where they fucking choose to. If you are trans, or gay, or whatever, and you want to use the non-conventional bathroom, then fucking do it. 

 

[buzzy]

If someone wants to rape someone in a public restroom I don't think a door with a symbol of a woman on it is gonna stop them.