September 14, 2016 | Sex & Society

NCAA boycotts North Carolina over anti-LGBT law

There's been more fallout to North Carolina's disgusting anti-gay and anti-trans law.

The law, known as HB2, requires transgender people to use restrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. It also nullifies any city bylaws that protect people from discrimination due to their gender identity or sexual orientation.

Since the law passed this spring several other states and cities have prohibited government business travel to North Carolina. A number of corporations have pulled back on investing in the state, including PayPal which withdrew plans to build a $3.6 million operations center in Charlotte that would have created more than 400 jobs.

In July, the National Basketball Association announced it was moved the 2017 All Star game from Charlotte.

Now the NCAA (National College Athletics Association) has followed in the NBA's footsteps, pulling seven college sports championships from North Carolina.

"The NCAA Constitution clearly states our values of inclusion and gender equity, along with the membership’s expectation that we as the Board of Governors protect those values for all,” said Jay Lemons, vice chair of the Board of Governors and chair of the ad hoc committee on diversity and inclusion.

The reaction from the Republican Party of North Carolina spokesperson Kami Mueller was nutso:

This is so absurd it's almost comical. I genuinely look forward to the NCAA merging all men's and women's teams together as singular, unified, unisex teams. Under the NCAA's logic, colleges should make cheerleaders and football players share bathrooms, showers and hotel rooms. This decision is an assault to female athletes across the nation. If you are unwilling to have women's bathrooms and locker rooms, how do you have a women's team? I wish the NCAA was this concerned about the women who were raped at Baylor. Perhaps the NCAA should stop with their political peacocking and instead focus their energies on making sure our nation's collegiate athletes are safe, both on and off the field.

So with that reaction, we see how this law came to be: these people are hate-filled ignoramuses.

More boycotts, please!