Repeal of North Carolina’s controversial House Bill 2, the so-called “bathroom bill,” was expected to take place Wednesday with bipartisan support. But without consensus in the state legislature’s last session, the repeal effort failed.

The much-fretted-over bathroom bill is a law that requires transgender people, and all people, to use the public bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to the gender of their birth. The city of Charlotte tossed out a home-turf ordinance that counters HB2 on Monday, reportedly as the direct result of a deal with state legislators certain HB2’s repeal would make the local rule redundant. But, failing consensus, HB2 still stands.