Harry Watson: Longer intermissions ahead

The common sense wisdom of our General Assembly has put North Carolina in the forefront of the urgent global fight against wrongly sexed bathroom invasions.

I’m concerned, however, that House Bill 2 lacks all enforcement provisions. How can we be sure that no one ever enters a bathroom who does not match the designation on a birth certificate?

The only solution will be for the government to issue machine-readable birth certificates to everybody and install electronic locks and card readers that will open the state’s bathrooms only to correctly sexed individuals. We may need to add thumbprint readers and retina scans to prevent fraudulent card use and cover the cost with more cuts to food stamps and Medicaid.

Only one question remains: How popular will all this be at halftime?

This story was originally published April 18, 2016 at 5:08 PM with the headline "Harry Watson: Longer intermissions ahead."