CA: LA Metro Will Boycott Bus Conference in NC in Protest of Anti-LGBT Legislation

Following a national outcry over a North Carolina law that restricts protections for transgender people, the head of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has effectively barred agency employees from traveling to Charlotte, N.C., for a conference.

No Metro employees will receive agency funds to travel to an American Public Transportation Assn. conference in May, Chief Executive Phil Washington wrote in an email to staff, adding that Metro has "zero tolerance" for discrimination.

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