North Carolina

A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state's new bathroom law.

Legislation has been proposed in states across the country to protect those who -- due to religious beliefs -- decline to employ or serve certain people.

Teams could pull out of scheduled NCAA events this spring because of new state laws in North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee while the sport's governing body's demands for discrimination-free environments at the places where its events are held won't take effect until the fall.

Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Ringo Starr and other artists plan to skip North Carolina performances as part of a musicians' boycott over a new law that limits protections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, but several stars at Sunday's American Country Countdown Awards said they plan to stand by their fans.

Rhetorical skirmishes continued Tuesday in North Carolina over a law limiting protections for LGBT people, as Democrats criticized a Republican's plea to "keep our state straight" a day after dozens were arrested and dueling demonstrations were held for and against the law.

A day of protests and arrests around North Carolina's statehouse marked what's likely to be weeks of impassioned debate over a law limiting protections for LGBT people.

A new law curtailing protections for LGBT people and limiting public bathroom access for transgender people sparked demonstrations, pro and con, at North Carolina's statehouse on Monday, this year's opening day of the legislature.

Transgender comedian Julia Scotti joined me in studio to discuss the recent passing of the North Carolina law that requires people to use the bathroom of the sex they were born as.

Steve Trevelise doesn't care who he's next to in the bathroom as long as there's a stall. Do you?

North Carolina's governor met Thursday with gay-rights advocates bearing a letter signed by more than 100 corporate executives urging him to repeal the nation's first state law limiting the bathroom options for transgender people.