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After N.C. enacted its bathroom law, this $2.5 million event moved to Boise

A few months after North Carolina enacted House Bill 2 last year, the planners of a large national conference reached out to Lisa Edens at the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau.

"They contacted me and said, ‘Hey, we’re looking at Boise. We’re pulling out of North Carolina,’ " said Edens, the bureau’s senior sales manager. "They didn’t feel comfortable staying there."

The law required people to use bathrooms and locker rooms based on the gender listed on their birth certificates — and keeping people from using rooms that correspond with their gender identity. It also banned local anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

BY AUDREY DUTTON
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