Drug maker reconsidering $20 million North Carolina factory

In this Feb. 2016 photo, Gov. Pat McCrory greeted presidents from private and public universities throughout the state at the President's Forum held at Cottrell Hall on the campus of High Point University, in N.C. North Carolina Gov. McCrory signed a new law limiting LGBT protections in his state by overriding local anti-discrimination laws. He faces voters this fall in a re-election effort against the state's Democratic attorney general. (Laura Greene/The Enterprise via AP, File) MANDATORY CREDIT (/The Enterprise via AP)

By Associated Press April 1, 2016 5 min read

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina’s governor met Thursday with gay-rights advocates bearing a letter signed by more than 100 corporate executives urging him to repeal the nation’s first state law limiting the bathroom options for transgender people.

The law also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections, and blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination and living wage rules.

The governor “appreciated the opportunity to sit down and deal with these complex issues through conversation and dialogue as opposed to political threats and economic retaliation,” his spokesman, Josh Ellis, said in a statement.

The advocates declined to describe Gov. Pat McCrory’s response.

Some companies are already reconsidering doing business in the country’s ninth-largest state.