North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill” could cost the state almost $5 billion a year in federal funding and business revenue, according to a new study from the UCLA School of Law.
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The law, which critics have described as discriminatory to transgendered individuals, requires people to use public restrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.
The controversy has provoked a legal battle between the Obama administration and the state of North Carolina. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has compared the bathroom bill to racial segregation laws, and the administration is threatening to withhold public funding on the grounds that North Carolina was violating the Civil Rights Act.
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According to the study, the lack of federal funds would amount to a $4.8 billion shortfall for the state, most of which would come out of the public school system. North Carolina has already lost tens of millions of dollars in business revenue, as a growing number of companies have canceled planned investments in North Carolina in protest of the bathroom law. A number of these companies, as it turns out, are massive hypocrites who do business in countries where homosexuality is illegal. The study predicts that the state will also lose millions in reduced travel and tourism, as well as legal fees.
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In related news, a grown man entered the women’s restroom at a SuperTarget wearing a skirt and a blond wig in protest against the chain retailer’s policy of letting customers use bathrooms corresponding the gender with which they identify. He had previously been asked to leave while standing outside the store protesting. “It’s not right,” the cross-dresser said. “They’re making it easy for someone to spy on a woman or child using the restroom.”
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