North Carolina wasting time on gender issues: #tellusatoday

North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state’s bathroom law. Facebook comments edited for clarity, grammar and length:

When I go to the bathroom I have no clue who is in the stall next to me, and I don’t care. Why are so many people obsessed with what other people are doing in these places?

Transgender people have been using the appropriate facilities for decades with no problems.

—Robbie Wallis

The North Carolina legislature and governor are wasting their time. There are more important things going on.

—David MacGregor

So people are OK with their wives or daughters showering with a strange man because he feels like a woman? The law allows for that. Have people considered how often guys will take videos of young women and post them online?

—Robert Johnson

Letter edited for clarity and grammar:

This movement favoring transgender individuals using public bathrooms alongside little girls is unbelievable. Our culture has deteriorated to a point considered unthinkable when America was at its zenith in the 1950s.

The Justice Department asserts North Carolina’s bathroom law is a civil rights violation and discriminates against transgender individuals. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Bathroom usage must conform to birth gender.

At least North Carolina and Mississippi have had the backbone to stand up to special interests and senseless political correctness. Let’s pray others will follow.

Earl Beal; Terre Haute, Ind.

We asked followers what they thought of North Carolina suing the government over the state’s bathroom law. Tweets edited for length and clarity:

North Carolina and other states have lost their minds! Bathrooms are a non-issue. Stats prove it. Why waste money?

—@RBrese

The law should be suspended until SCOTUS rules.

—@LarryTheWineGuy

Special rights for one group often whittle away the rights of another, in this case, a woman’s right to privacy.

—@for_congress

Anybody can have an identity. So if you want men in locker room showers, let’s not hear any complaining then.

—@ask_tweety

I stand with North Carolina. The Department of Justice is out of control.

—@vaaggie86

It is just the next step in a process that may eventually end in the U.S. Supreme Court.

—@EggsZactly

It’s a way for North Carolina leaders to proudly admit they are religious bigots.

—@twheels1980

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