Margaret Spellings, president of the University of North Carolina, pledged that she would not seek to enforce the state's controversial new law barring transgender people from using bathrooms that do not correspond to their legal gender status at birth -- as long as a lawsuit about the law is pending. Spellings made the statement in an affidavit submitted to a court that is hearing a lawsuit against UNC over the new law. The university is arguing that litigation against it should be stayed while courts hear various suits and counter-suits about the North Carolina law.

May 31, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed