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But seriously, organizations like the NBA these days need to have official diversity/inclusion/anti-discrimination policies. When we think NBA we think of basketball players, but the NBA has thousands of employees who do finances, logistical work, and on and on.
An allstar game isn’t organized by the players, it is organized by a big organization that hires a diverse set of people. I have no idea whether the NBA is a very diverse organization or not, but they almost certainly have trans employees just because of their size. They also have fancy lawyers who tell them things like, “Never ask anyone if they are trans, never assume anyone is or is not trans.” because the job of those lawyers is to keep them from getting sued for discrimination.
So when the NBA says it won’t have the game in NC, they aren’t using NC to make an example for any agenda. They are just listening to those same lawyers, who are reminding them, “If your employees are trans - and you don’t know if they are - then you could get yourself into trouble here.” I mean, maybe the leadership in the NBA is actually very pro trans rights, but whether they are or not, that bathroom law just make NC a non-option for any large company looking to host a major event.
Lawmakers are supported by a civil service so that the civil service can explain shit like this. Listen to your goddamned policy analysts. Or, if no one saw this coming, get some new goddamned policy analysts.
