NCAA to review bathroom bill repeal before deciding on North Carolina return

The NCAA will decide next week whether to allow the return of championship games to North Carolina after the state repealed the so-called bathroom bill.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill on Thursday that scaled back part of the controversial HB2 bill, which said transgender people would have to use the bathrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates.

The NCAA relocated seven championship events out of the state in the last year, including first-round games in this season's men's basketball tournament.

North Carolina's new law was considered a compromise by lawmakers, but some in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community feel it still contains language that will encourage and allow discrimination against them.

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