General Assembly Overrides Stein Veto of Transgender Legislation

This is great news. Kudos to the Republicans for making this happen.

The NC Family Policy Council has the details. It will:

Define “male” and “female” based on biological sex in state statute, administrative rules, and state regulations;

Prohibit the use of state taxpayer funds to pay for puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones, or surgical gender transition procedures for prisoners incarcerated in the state prison system;

Extend the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice action arising out of injury associated with a gender transition procedure;

Direct local boards of education to adopt policies to allow a student or the student’s parent to request that the student be excused from classroom activities or instruction that would impose a substantial burden on the student’s religious beliefs; and

Direct local boards of education to adopt policies to provide online access to a catalog of all library books available at a school, and to allow parents the opportunity to prohibit their child from borrowing any books from the library that the parent’s deem objectionable. This is good legislation.

This is great legislation.