North Carolina transgender bathroom trial being pushed back

September 2, 2016 at 6:32 p.m. | Updated September 2, 2016 at 6:33 p.m.

by Associated Press

A new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. President Obama's directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places, but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district's 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
A new sticker designates a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle. President Obama's directive ordering schools to accommodate transgender students has been controversial in some places, but since 2012 Seattle has mandated that transgender students be able to use of the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. Nearly half of the district's 15 high schools already have gender neutral bathrooms and one high school has had a transgender bathroom for 20 years. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

RALEIGH, N.C. - A lawyer says that a trial over a North Carolina law governing transgender restroom access is being pushed back by several months.

James Esseks is a lawyer for the ACLU, which is representing two transgender students and an employee ofNorth Carolina's university system.

Esseks says that a judge's order on Friday means that the case is being pushed back from its November trial date until May.

A docket entry for the court shows that a magistrate judge partly granted a request to delay the proceedings but doesn't explain further.

The so-called HB2 law requires transgender people to use public restrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate, not their gender identity. It also limits other antidiscrimination protections for LGBT people.

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