North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory continued Sunday to defend a key provision of the state's controversial HB2 law — which some consider discriminatory toward members of the LGBT community — that restricts transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
"I do believe in our high schools, in our middle schools, in our universities, we should continue to have the tradition that we've been having in this country for years. And we have a women's facility and a men's facility," McCrory said on "Meet the Press," noting that "it's worked out pretty well."
The governor has tried to undo some of the damage caused by the new law by signing an executive order that expands equal opportunity protection for LGBT employees of the state.
But when moderator Chuck Todd asked why he didn't expand that same executive order to protect LGBT North Carolinians in the private sector, he responded, "Because I'm not the private sector's H.R. director."
