Portland City Council to Stop Government Travel to North Carolina

The Portland City Council Wednesday is expected to pass a resolution stopping official travel to North Carolina.

The resolution, in response to that state enacting a law preventing local governments from passing legislation prohibiting discrimination in public places based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

North Carolina also now requires all public schools, college campuses and government offices that multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities require they be used only by people based on the biological sex indicated on their birth certificates.

In other words, a man who became a transgender woman would still have to use the men's room.

Portland follows in the footsteps of Washington State as well as the mayors of San Francisco and Seattle.

"We as members of the Portland City Council do hereby stand with the citizens of North Carolina and throughout the country who condemn the "Public Facilities Privacy and Securities Act," reads the resolution.

The resolution will suspend travel for all city employees to North Carolina until the bill is overturned.

All five members are introducing the resolution, which means it should pass unanimously.

It is the last item on the agenda of the council's morning session Wednesday.