To: Governor Roy Cooper
EDRA stands for ALL and AGAINST HB2!
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and its collective community of more than 4,000 architects, designers, and educators, calls for the full repeal of House Bill 2 (HB2), the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
EDRA advocates for inclusive and respectful treatment of ALL people and opposes any legislation or action that ignores and inhibits the full rights, liberties, and humanity of all. To improve the human experience through environmental research and design is, in short, EDRA’s mission. Therefore, alleviating and eliminating spatial discrimination and segregation is a cause for which we unequivocally stand.
Why is this important?
EDRA is proud of its nearly 50 years of work advancing environmental design research and until now, particularly proud of its founding roots and incorporation, since 1972, in the State of North Carolina. Our return to North Carolina on May 18-22, 2016 for EDRA’s 47th annual conference at Raleigh’s Convention Center, has become all the more momentous with the passage of HB2, a discrimination law we ardently reject and oppose.
Our conference will go on, but not without EDRA declaring firm and full opposition to HB2. EDRA stands for the rights of all and stands united with all those who are opposing and calling for the full repeal of HB2. Moreover, we join in supporting the Equality Act which amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.
Governor McCrory, we petition you to immediately rescind HB2 and to enact legislation in North Carolina safeguarding and extending civil rights to all. HB2 must go now!