North Carolina was in the middle of LGBT rights issues this year, with their waffling over ‘bathroom laws’ as they came to be termed. Transgendered access to public bathrooms, became a nation-wide hot button topic in 2016 when Mississippi, but most infamously North Carolina, passed legislation restricting access to bathrooms based on one’s biological predisposition, not identity. As with all cultural emotive topics, the issue got snatched up by both political parties while questions of simple human dignity and the further consideration of state’s rights versus federal were thrown aside. Check your local listings (translation, state laws) in how this is all being handled in your own environs.