A law of the US state of North transgender considered discriminatory, violates civil rights Carolina, he warned on Wednesday the US Department of Justice.
AFP
The warning is contained in a letter from the Justice Department to the governor of North Carolina, Pat McCrory Republican, whose text was reproduced by local media.
The law known as HB2, enacted in March by McCrory, forces individuals to use public bathrooms that correspond to their birth sex, not gender identity, which irked transgender people and sparked a boycott against the state southeast of the country of celebrities, sports organizations and businesses.
"The state is engaging in a pattern of discrimination against transgender employees and both you and the state are engaging in a pattern of opposition to the full enjoyment of the rights" guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, said the letter from the Department of Justice McCrory, published by the WSOCTV channel.
The Civil Rights Act prohibits an employer from discriminating against an individual on the basis of sex, she recalled the letter.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to AFP requests to share the letter.
The Department urged the Governor McCrory to communicate no later than May 9 "if you reverse these violations" by not implementing the HB2 law, and asked to report to state employees that "consistent with federal law, will be allowed access to bathrooms according to their gender identity. "
With the growing boycott, McCrory in April reduced the scope of the HB2, to leave without effect on the private sector, but the law still applies in schools and administrative buildings.
President Barack Obama called in recent days of "wrong" that law and a similar one in the state of Mississippi, which discriminate against LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), and called for its repeal.
These laws are part of a series of initiatives in conservative states in response to the June 2015 decision of the US Supreme Court Justice to legalize gay marriage nationwide.