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In the article N.C. Gov. Already Enforcing HB 2 with Trespassing Laws by Trudy Ring states that the governor of North Carolina says he will use trespassing laws to enforce the restroom provisions of House Bill 2, while officials of the state university says they won’t enforce the controversial law at all. "We're using trespassing laws that we were using before House Bill 2, we're using that now," he told reporters, according to a video. The governor stated in his video that “it's just basic privacy rights and that's trespassing and we'll continue to do that just like we were doing long before the Charlotte ordinance. So nothing's really changed in that regard.” According to the governor it’s just basic privacy rights but it is not basic privacy …show more content…
The first type of privilege is referred to as “unearned entitlements”, which is when people should feel safe in public spaces or working in a place where they feel they belong and are valued for what they contribute. In the bathroom case, the transgender people are denied access to these privilege since they do not feel safe using the girls bathroom which is associated with their biological sex if they transgendered themselves into a boy. Also these people should be accepted and valued for who they are and what gender they want to be. The second type of privilege is conferred dominance which is the power from unearned privilege that can look like strength when it is, in fact, permission to escape or dominate. For example, the governor wants the police to guard the bathroom and deny access to the transgender people whose sex does not corresponds to their birth certificates. This relates to the example given by Johnson about an African American lawyer, a partner in a large firm, who was stopped by a recently hired young white attorney denying him to pass forward just because of a cultural assumption of white racial dominance. In this case, the man was stopped because of the fact he was black and in the other case the transgendered people are denied access to the bathroom just because of their preferred

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