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... North Carolina HB2, a bill that requires transgender people to use the bathroom cor- responding to the sex on their birth certificate, provoked extensive public debate about the issue of bathroom access. It was passed in March 2016, after this article was in press. 2 When I have...

..., South Dakota, had passed (but subsequently vetoed) a bill attempting to restrict gender-appropriate public toilet access for transgender people, although more than two dozen such bills had been introduced nation- wide (Madhani 2016). Since then, North Carolina passed HB2, its notorious “bathroom...