WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and five of his colleagues asked the National Basketball Association on Tuesday to move its 2017 all-star game from Charlotte, N.C. because a new state law curbing gay and transgender rights.
The senators made the request in a letter to Commissioner Adam Stern, citing North Carolina's recent legislation requiring transgender individuals to use bathrooms that match the sex on their birth certificates, not the gender they currently identify as.
The law also bans local governments from passing non-discrimination laws to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.