Members of the Atlanta City Council moved Tuesday to host the 2017 NBA All-Star Game instead of its previously allocated location in Charlotte.
Atlanta leaders introduced a resolution requesting the NBA’s permission to move the game to Georgia’s capital following N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory’s approval of a bill that affirmed that transgender men and women should use the bathrooms and other gendered facilities of the sex on their birth certificates.
The new N.C. law overrules an ordinance in Charlotte that would have permitted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to use the men’s or women’s restroom, locker room or other private facility for the sex they identify with.
NBA spokesman Mike Bass had previously said the league was hopeful McCrory and the State Assembly would reverse the law in time for the game next February.
A number of corporations have condemned North Carolina politicians for the move. On Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order banning all non-essential travel of state employees to the Tar Heel State.
