North Carolina just sued the federal government over its controversial bathroom law

North Carolina fights back.
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North Carolina filed a lawsuit against the federal government Monday over its opposition to the state's controversial bathroom law, which requires transgender people to use public restrooms associated with their biological sex and prohibits local governments from banning anti-LGBT discrimination in public places.

The Justice Department gave North Carolina a Monday deadline to ditch the law, arguing that it violates the Civil Rights Act, or else potentially face losing access to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.