PayPal Pulls North Carolina Plan After Transgender Bathroom Law (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PayPal Holdings Inc on Tuesday canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and invest $3.6 million in the area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens. In a letter on March 29, founders and chief executives of more than a hundred companies, including Apple Inc, Twitter Inc, and Alphabet Inc urged North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation. PayPal is one of the first companies to protest the controversial measure requiring people to use bathrooms or locker rooms in schools and other public facilities that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity. "The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal's mission and culture," Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman said in a statement. PayPal's original plan was to open the operations center in Charlotte and employ 400 skilled workers there.

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Re:a shot across the bow has been made

[sribe]

If some idiots want to proclaim that they are women (or men) when they are not (and never will be)...

Google "mixed phenotype genitalia", then maybe just maybe you'll be less of an ignorant bigoted pig.

Re:Shows the limits of freedom

[__aaclcg7560]

Whose freedom is more important?

The American people who want to be free of discrimination by bigots pretending to be public servants.

Re:Shows the limits of freedom

[TheGratefulNet]

with SO MANY other problems that need solving, THIS SHIT is what the southerners spend their time on?

seriously - no wonder its loserville in the south. keep it up, guys; you are nearly 3rd world and I guess you are trying for rock bottom?

sheesh. the anti-intellectualism trend in the south is one thing, but the outright bigotry that is unashamed - wow.

I know there are fans of the south, but shit like this is why I completely refuse to consider moving there for job or any other reason. the backwards attitudes just would not work for any thinking person.

I'm not here to defend paypal! they are scum, clearly. but even scummy companies can make a good call now and then. this is one of them.

Re:Good

[Aighearach]

Oh come on, you expect bigoted people to have the education to understand that words are thoughts, and that thoughts are a biological process in an organ inside the human body? Are you fucking nuts?! *roflcopters*

Ahh, the ole appeal to emotion fallacy

[s.petry]

How exactly do you propose to make the law pertain to only the good people and ignore the bad ? Do you have any answer to this besides some fantasy view of the world as being full of perfect people who will do no harm? I have not seen an answer to this question, and very much doubt you have one. In fact in you just falsely claimed that my reasoning about your poor decision is based on "panic", when in fact I spelled out exactly what the problem with a law in of this nature is.

If people were only worried about the use of the rest room as you just attempted to claim then there is no need for the government to force people to accept the minority view. I can not find one instance of a woman being arrested for using the men's room without other circumstances (drunk, drugs, violent). Men are not running around threatening women with lawsuits if they happen to be transgender and using the men's room.

Alternatively, I have seen is women *rightly* complain that they feel threatened by women that appeared to be very masculine using their rest room. So this law does the exact opposite of protecting woman. Women will be _MORE_ at risk with a law of this nature.

So answer the point I addressed instead of making more false claims and ad hominem and fallacy. Surprise me with reason and logic instead of providing the expected trolling we normally see from SJWs and shills.