There are more pressing concerns than restrooms: #tellusatoday

North Carolina legislators failed Wednesday to repeal HB2, also known as the “bathroom bill.” The law makes it mandatory for people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their birth gender.

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This is Republican leadership at its finest. They don’t care if Russia is committing espionage against our country as long as our bathrooms are “pure.”

—Walt Stasinski

I’m moving to North Carolina. Those guys have common sense. Which most of the country lacks.

—Monty Hightower

A law that protects my 5-year-old daughter from running into a creepy old man in the bathroom because he “feels like a woman that day” is upheld. Why is that considered news?

—KT Dause

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How on earth would you even enforce such a silly idea? Do I have to present my penis to enter the men’s bathroom? Is there a camera that does genitalia recognition?

—Rodney Smith

It seems that children have a greater chance of being molested in church, considering all the scandals that have happened in some, than in a public restroom by someone who is transgender.

Why are conservatives so worried about this?

—Ron Martin

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Please quit calling North Carolina’s bill on gender the “bathroom bill.”

A transgender man could use a closed stall in a men’s bathroom. No problem there. A transgender woman has only closed stalls in the women’s bathroom. No problem there.

Problems do arise in the changing rooms of health clubs, schools and swimming pools where privacy is often minimal or non-existent. Having no rules for changing rooms exposes everyone to embarrassment if a man or woman purposely goes into the wrong area.

Bob Munson; Newbury Park, Calif.

We asked followers what they thought of North Carolina’s failed attempt at repealing its bathroom bill.

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Go to the bathroom where you’re supposed to. Kind of the way it has worked for the last 200 years.

—@patsully35

Have a try at leaving people alone.

—@morpheuswaking

The fact that anyone thinks it’s OK for a male to use a female bathroom or locker room is absurd.

—@RamblinManNC

It’s a great law.

—@davebrandonego

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