N. Carolina loses even more Championship Games over anti-trans bill

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The Atlantic Coast Conference is the latest sporting association to pull out of North Carolinaover House Bill 2, the state’s controversial anti-LGBT law.

The ACC announced Wednesday that all championship games would be moved for the 2016-2017 season. This decision affects 15 universities, including Clemson, Duke, Florida State, and the University of North Carolina, and will lead to the loss of 10 championships. These games include title matches in men’s baseball, women’s basketball, men’s golf, and women’s soccer.

The Dr. Pepper ACC Football Championship, scheduled to be held in Charlotte this December, was expected to bring in an estimated $32 million for the state.

James Clements, chair of the ACC Council of Presidents, said that the decision to relocate the games was in direct response to HB 2 — which he said is counter to the ACC’s goal of furthering inclusivity and diversity in its sports.

“The ACC presidents engaged in a constructive, wide-ranging and vigorous discussion of this complex issue over the past two days,” Clements said in a press release. “The decision to move the neutral site championships out of North Carolina while HB2 remains the law was not an easy one but it is consistent with the shared values of inclusion and non-discrimination at all of our institutions.”

Currently, discrimination is the law of the land in North Carolina.

http://www.advocate.com/sports/2016/9/16/acc-pulls-10-championships-out-nc-protest-anti-lgbt-law

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[Nino 12]

Talent always wins 

 

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[ laughs in gay ]

[JevyDuty 2,961]

Good!!! Bigotry is expensive

[Chic 20,830]

YAS I'll use the women's bathroom there and they can't do ONE FUKIN THING because I look more like a woman than their wives and they'd never know

[Goosey 3,017]

Someone pointed out that the NCAA refuses to play in North Carolina because of this bill... but the NCAA still plays games in China and Cuba, places with far worse human rights violations... which tells you the NCAA doesn't really care about human rights so much as PR.

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Queen !!