NC bill against revenge porn loses Dem support once GOP adds unrelated anti-trans items
North Carolina’s Senate recently passed House Bill 805, originally a bipartisan-backed measure targeting revenge or coerced pornography—requiring written consent, age verification, and 72‑hour takedown notices. However, Senate Republicans heavily amended it with sweeping anti-trans provisions: redefining legal sex as strictly male or female; banning state funding for transition-related care in prisons; extending malpractice limits for transition procedures to 10 years; keeping original and amended birth certificates; and adding school measures like opt-outs for parents on books, activities, sleeping quarters by sex with parental permission, and broader parental control. Most Senate Democrats abstained by voting “present,” prompting a GOP motion to strip them of further votes on the issue. Democrats argue Republicans hijacked a child-protection bill with unrelated culture-war policies, leveraging it for political gain. The bill returns to the House, where opposition to the amendments likely remains strong.
