The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Wednesday that it would move neutral site championships for this academic year, including the football title game and the women’s basketball tournament, out of North Carolina in reaction to a state law that curbed anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The decision came two days after the N.C.A.A. announced that it would move championship games for the coming year, including six in the Division I men’s basketball tournament, touching off contentious debate between opponents of the law, who praised the N.C.A.A. for taking a principled stand, and supporters of the law, who said the association was inappropriately inserting itself into politics.