I’m trying to ignore the spectacle and attempt to bring whatnot into the mainstream, but I’m having mixed feelings about leaving good and honorable people in the trenches. Conservative activists (which normally would be an oxymoron) Dr. Carl Mumpower and Chad Nesbitt have offered a $2000 reward for:

anyone who can help us identify a viable means to bringing civil, criminal, administrative, or other form of legal redress against the parties involved in this act of coercion [businesses boycotting the state until it repeals HB2, a bill requiring those with XY chromosomes and the appurtenant body parts to attend the bathroom designated for that DNA configuration, and an analogous course of action for those of the XX persuasion]. Examples would be violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) addressing matters of interstate commerce, seditious conspiracy involving an organized attempt to disrupt the rule of law, violation of non-profit charters or tax-status, violation of lobbying laws, etc.

This is described as taking:

a practical, realistic, and sincere legal path to fighting this reprehensible effort to undermine the governance of our state and the natural laws of common sense.

Does it not impress you as a little strange that our society has to beat the bushes in search of a violation of the “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) addressing matters of interstate commerce, seditious conspiracy involving an organized attempt to disrupt the rule of law, violation of non-profit charters or tax-status, violation of lobbying laws, etc.,” to defend the “natural laws of common sense?”

In the meantime, over 200 organizations, including different states that probably don’t allow men in ladies’ locker rooms and vice versa, have threatened and waged boycotts against the state. I am happy with this. State legislatures and governors who trust their citizens to behave in cross-gender dressing rooms can have their cross-gender dressing rooms. People who prefer more privacy can expect it in North Carolina.

For the record, I’ve been in a few states recently, and everybody’s heard of the “Charlotte bathroom bill;” and for the most part, they think people trying to legislate away differences between boys and girls are crazy.