The most amazing thing about North Carolina’s HB2, even more than the fictions, delusions and false equivalencies its advocates invent to justify such a law, is that even though it literally cannot accomplish its alleged goal, supporters seem willing to absorb an avalanche of unintended consequences.
“The purpose of HB2 is to ensure that people, especially women and children but men as well, can use public restrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas without being exposed to people of the opposite biological sex,” Jane Clark Scharl of the National Review wrote in March.
Setting aside the issue of whether that’s as inherently traumatic as Scharl implies, there is this reality: The three letters in the law’s abbreviation and the thousands in the text of the bill signed into law by Gov.