LGBT News: Former North Carolina Governor Says 'Bathroom Law' Made Him Unhireable After Office

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said the state's controversial “bathroom law," which requires transgender people to use the bathroom that matches the gender printed on their birth certificates, has made him unhireable since leaving office.

McCrory said in an interview with the World Radio podcast, an Asheville evangelical Christian news website, the backlash resulting from the law “has impacted me to this day, even after I left office. People are reluctant to hire me because, ‘Oh my gosh. He’s a bigot' — which is the last thing I am.” The former Republican governor cited a January incident in Washington where he was chased down an alley by LGBT rights activists chanting “shame.”

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Before President Donald Trump took office, there were reports McCrory would find a place in the conservative-leaning administration. On Feb. 22, Trump rescinded the protections granted under former President Barack Obama that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom of whatever gender with which they identified, even though Trump referred to himself as an advocate of LGBT rights throughout his campaign.

“They’re definitely going to take care of him,” an unidentified source close to Trump’s team told the Charlotte Observer in December.

McCrory did not disclose in the interview Monday whether he had been contacted about a potential job Trump's White House or if he was gearing up for another run for governor of North Carolina in 2020.

The North Carolina Democratic Party issued a statement about the dangers of McCrory possibly becoming the state's governor again by citing the significant economic impact the “bathroom law.” After the law was enacted last March, Deutche Bank opted out of to its plan to add 400 employees in the state, and Paypal withdrew plans for a 400-employee operations center in Charlotte.

“North Carolina has already lost hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity and thousands of jobs as a direct result of House Bill 2, but I guess we can start adding Governor McCrory’s career to the total as well,” a spokesman of the Democratic Party said in a statement Monday in reference to McCrory's podcast interview.