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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
BOYCOTTING THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTH CAROLINA-BASED BUSINESSES
WHEREAS, on March 23, 2016, the State of North Carolina adopted the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, which is officially known as an act to provide for single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and changing facilities in schools and public agencies, and to create statewide consistency in regulation of employment and public accommodations, prohibiting anti-discrimination rules being established except on the basis contained in the state's anti-discrimination laws; and
WHEREAS, because the state's anti-discrimination laws do not include discrimination on the basis of sexuality or gender status, the legislation has been widely described as anti-LGBT, due to the act's restriction of the definition of sex to the sex at birth, forcing all government-controlled facilities to maintain single-sex bathrooms for matching biological sex only; and
WHEREAS, the process of adoption of this discriminatory law took less than 24 hours, from presentation and vote by the House of Representatives, through a speedy vote by the Senate, ending in official enactment upon the signature of Governor Pat McCrory that same day; and
WHEREAS, on March 28, 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina, Lambda Legal, and Equality North Carolina, filed a federal lawsuit challenging House Bill 2, arguing that North Carolina's new law "violates the most basic guarantees of equal treatment and the U.S. Constitution"; and
WHEREAS, a number of companies have publicly announced their opposition to the law, including Red Hat, Dow Chemical, Biogen, Wells Fargo, American Airlines, Lowe's, PayPal, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, IBM, Yelp, and Salesforce.com; and on March 29, 2016, an open letter signed by 80 corporate CEOs against House Bill 2 was sent to Governor McCrory; and
WHEREAS, as of April 3, 2016, the states of Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Ve...
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