TO THE EDITOR:
What Pat McCrory doesn’t seem to understand when he talks about House Bill 2 is that nobody is advocating that men be allowed in women’s restrooms. We are advocating that women be allowed in women’s restrooms. Transgender women are women. Furthermore, when you make transgender women use men’s restrooms, you are forcibly outing them as transgender.
And as we know from the brutal examples of Elisha Walker, found murdered in Johnston County last year, and more than 20 other transgender people murdered throughout the U.S. in 2015 and 2016, it’s dangerous to be a transgender person in the U.S. There are zero recorded instances of a transgender person attacking someone in a public restroom. This bill doesn’t protect any women. Instead, it puts many in even more danger.
Brittany Burchett
Graduate student
Information and Library Science
