There's an error in this story. I sent an email to the author Eric Lichtblau at The New York Times, and I thought it might be useful to post it here as well. The email is kinda long, so I'll have to post it in several parts, sorry.

Hi Eric,

I really enjoyed your article "U.S. warns North Carolina that transgender bill violates civil rights laws", but you had an error in it that was important enough that it needs to be brought to your attention. In the article you wrote: "The state measure, House Bill 2, known as HB2, was signed into law in March and says the bathroom a person uses is determined by his or her original gender." That’s not actually what the law says. I was curious to know what the state’s definition of ‘original gender’ was, so I looked up the bill in question and it doesn’t say ‘original gender’ is says ‘biological sex’, which it defines as: “Biological sex. – The physical condition of being male or female, which is stated on a person's birth certificate.”