iStock/Thinkstock(RALEIGH, N.C.) — North Carolina lawmakers are meeting in a special session Wednesday to reconsider House Bill 2, commonly known as the “bathroom bill,” which limits LGBT rights and has sparked controversy across the Tar Heel state since it was signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory in March.

HB2 requires public schools, public college campuses and government agencies to designate multiple-occupancy bathrooms and changing facilities, such as locker rooms, for use according to the “biological sex” stated on a person’s birth certificate. Under the law, transgender people cannot use bathrooms and changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity unless they get the sex on their birth certificate changed.

HB2 has prompted economic boycotts and a loss of jobs in the state. The NBA announced in July that it was moving 2017’s All-Star Game out of Charlotte over concerns about the law.

Wednesday’s special session is intended to “reconsider existing state legislation,” McCrory said in a statement Monday. The session was prompted by the Charlotte City Council’s Monday vote to rescind its LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance, a local law that led to the statewide HB2, The Charlotte Observer reported.

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