N.C. Settles ‘Bathroom Bill’ Suit, Workplace Bias Claims on Hold

North Carolina officials are barred from preventing transgender people’s access to public restrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity, under a federal court settlement approved July 23.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the state’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to resolve litigation that sprang from the state’s 2016 “bathroom bill,” which required transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding with their birth gender.

When it was enacted, the law prompted boycotts of the state by business groups and entertainers who called it discriminatory.

But the settlement in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina ...