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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.
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.
Whose freedom is more important?
The American people who want to be free of discrimination by bigots pretending to be public servants.
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.
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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*
There's no protection for severe mental illness. Gender identity disorders are strongly linked to schizophrenia. Diagnosis is almost always automatic.
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.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
What good reason?
Really? You're asking? You don't know?
Frankly, this is one of those "if I have to explain it to you, then you wouldn't understand" type of things.
How many women have been assaulted by a transgendered person?
Don't know, don't care. Lots and lots and LOTS of women have been assaulted by men.
As a public safety issue, this bigoted, North Carolina law is a terrible thing.
No, as a public safely issue, this is the right thing to do.
What I can't understand is why the left is so in favor of making women less safe?
I don't know how narrowminded and naive you have to be to think legally allowing trans-gendered people into women's washrooms is the equivalent of socially allowing anybody to go into any washroom.
It is, but you are again trying to defend the indefensible...
A trans-gendered person doesn't have to have surgery, now do they. No, they only have to "feel like the other gender".
You think men who are looking to rape and harm women were just taking advantage of the fact that the law before didn't specify that you were required to use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate rather than their gender identity?
No, you aren't reading, or you don't care. Either way, you simply don't want to hear it.
Go back and reread what I wrote, or don't and live in ignorance if you wish.
Oh for crying out loud this identity politics stuff is getting incredibly stupid.
First lets look at "transgender" or whatever. Outside of a very small number of people with genetic abnormalities (XXY) these people do not exist. In no other case would we all jump on board with joining someone in a shared delusion where they pretend to be something they are not. We would get them the psychological help they need. If you went around claiming to be a bobcat and insisting we had to let you wounder the nature preserve (where people are not permitted) we would not make allowance for you, we would take responsibility for you as a society and deal with you. There is no reason a small number of people with mental illness leaving them unable to recognize themselves for what they are man or woman should be allowed to make the rest of us uncomfortable. Heck when a white person claims to be black trapped in a white body, there are screams of cultural appropriation and that person is rejected by both groups. The same group that is usual supportive of "transgender" nonsense will scream "cultural appropriation." The idea that sex and gender is separate is fundamentally stupid, and not based on much of anything. Yes there are some studies about brain organization that show some correlations with sex, and individuals who deviate from those patterns but even among those individuals the majority do not struggle with their identity or identify their gender differently from their sex.
Gay's are making the idea of civil rights a joke. The first generation of civil rights laws again addressed something objective. They dealt with something you objectively were, a woman, a certain skin color etc. The hunt for the gay gene has been futile. These are people with a fetish nothing else, and certainly do not deserve the projection of law. Their rights were never violated, they always enjoyed the same right to marry someone of the opposite sex the rest of us had, you can't get more equal than that. What these new laws are doing is holding a gun to the head of people with real religious convictions. Worse they are not even really needed. We don't live in the era of horse and buggy anymore. If the local baker won't make a cake for your debauched "wedding" its not a problem. You can google another bakery and find one you can drive to in 15min. These laws are simply abusive. Worse the SCOTUS is wrong they fundamentally violate the First Amendment. Freedom of Association can't mean anything without freedom from association.
Again the supporters of all this insanity show their naked hypocrisy. Someone with real religious conviction like Kim Davis refuses to issue a marriage license and they scream "but its her job she is a public official" some attorney general says he won't defend these state laws and they cheer. Well its his job to represent the state and defend its laws, why isn't he expected to do it? I'll tell you way because LGBT people are all about ignoring reality, and want to be entitled to their own facts.
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