Quentin has written at length about the plebiscite on same sex marriage in Australia –here, here, here, here, and here.  North Carolina, through its majority Republican Legislature and Republican Governor Pat McCrory has passed a bill HB2 which in part legislates that people may only use the bathroom, restroom, change room of the gender designated on their birth certificate.  (More importantly the bill has provisions that restricts or in some cases removes the rights of many to protection against discrimination.)    Apparently there is concern about bathroom safety, and the possibility of corruption of youthful innocence.

Carol Petrie writes in the INDI week, a local Triangle newspaper, “.. to all those parents out there concerned about their children’s bathroom safety: when you try to take your little boy with you into the ladies’ room or your little girl into the men’s room, you are violating the law.  Yes, send that little man into the bathroom of his gender all alone.  Now, don’t you feel safe and happy with McCrory’s HB2?”

And now for our poem, by Sue Wong – F U HB2 (From INDI Week 28/9/16)

When the line is long and you’ve got to pee
Here’s a tip you can take from me
March on over to the door marked ‘Men”
And if guys give grief declare that when
You left home that morning at half past ten
You were late, in a rush, and yourself so beside
You forgot the document proving you’re bona fide
And NO, they can’t peek, though you’ve nothing to hide
Its such a chore to drop panties while hiking a dress
So to avoid stares, snide remarks and all that mess
You’ll excuse yourself and duck into a stall
Saying ‘if you don’t like it give McCrory a call

(Sporting and business boycotts of the State of North Carolina have so far cost in the order of $400 Million.)