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

Posted by BeauHD on from the controversial-laws dept.

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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  1. Re: What's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever I want to get a little private time with the opposite sex or get "in the voyeristic mood".... It causes me to identify with the opposite gender. In fact I find my gender swinging back and forth depending on my sexual desires. Could happen on an hourly basis.

  2. On the one hand... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I want to cry and commiserate with my friends and eat HagenDas. On the other hand I feel rage and want to chop down trees and drink Miller lite.

    So confusing...I wish there was a law to instruct me how to feel about this issue!

  3. Re:Good by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have to imagine that some politicians are doing a little nervous sweating about this, given that passing red-meat "values" legislation is supposed to be an easy, low-cost, way to score some points with Team Jesus; not something that might get the local chamber of commerce pissed off at you. Oh well. Time to see how much they value those values, I suppose.

  4. I Like To Shit Next To Women by zenlessyank · · Score: 5, Funny

    The comments they make when I release the death fog is fucking hilarious. I don't care how big your dick is, lady. My alien acid shits will drive you out of the men's room FOREVER!!!!

  5. Re: What's next? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    To clarify, I'm talking about a post-graduate medical college.

    Sex with cadavers was never my thing.

  6. Re:Discrimination against who exactly? by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    See one problem is the law says gender AT BIRTH.

    Ever heard of 'born again'? Hallelujah! Praise the lawd!

    --
    Have gnu, will travel.