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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. LGB ? by yet+another+SanTiago · · Score: 5, Interesting

    area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens

    I see how the law is targeting transgender people, but how the law is targeting lesbian, gay or bisexual people?

    1. Re:LGB ? by Sowelu · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The summary and article leave out the fact that this law bans local jurisdictions from offering any LGBT protections beyond what the state does, which is "none". Cities had local laws saying, for example, you couldn't refuse to rent to a gay couple just because they were gay...those city laws are now struck from the books by state mandate.

  2. a shot across the bow has been made by nimbius · · Score: 5, Interesting

    for those who think this isnt an egregious concern for the state of North Carolina, they very much do have a lot to lose.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The Research Triangle Park (RTP) is one of the largest research parks in the world, but its been largely a pearl in an otherwise very salty oyster. Its home to Cisco, Redhat, Microsoft, and NetApp among others. Governors and statesmen are wrecklessly gambling with this research park in the hopes that pandering to ten million North Carolinians with rhetoric from the culture war is a sustainable or responsible approach to governing their state.

    PayPal has made it very clear: there are 49 other states that will gladly accept our proposition to employ hundreds of high skilled knowledge workers. Your tax incentives are by no means exclusive to the state.

    --
    Good people go to bed earlier.
  3. paypal politics by fche · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember, this is the same company that excludes its users from commerce in legal but politically incorrect products & services.

    https://www.paypal.com/ca/weba...