Lawyer in NC transgender bathroom case says bill must go A heated national debate over access to bathrooms by transgenders is sweeping the United States, after North Carolina in March became the first US state to require transgender people to use restrooms in public buildings that match the sex on their birth certificate, rather than the gender by which they identify. As the deadline approaches for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to respond to the US Justice Department, a lawyer for the transgender plaintiffs says nothing short of full repeal of the so-called ’bathroom bill’ will do. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES