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In the wake of North Carolina's passage of its controversial HB2 (colloquially called the bathroom bill) in March 2016, a video began circulating on social media alongside claims that it showed police in North Carolina harassing a young woman who didn't look to be feminine enough to use the ladies' restroom: The video was published to Facebook in April 2016, at the height of public debate over the bill. Subsequent versions included one published to YouTube. According to the description, it showed police in North Carolina forcibly removing a lesbian from a women's bathroom because she didn't look feminine enough: Occupy Democrats continued the trend in print (IT BEGINS: Watch Cops Drag Girl Out Of NC Bathroom For 'Not Looking Like A Woman'). However, that article included a caveat that its source was unknown, and only speculation on social media pegged the footage to North Carolina after the passage of HB2: However, the Facebook page Urban Leak published the video in December 2015, well before HB2 caused debate across the U.S.: From the information available about the clip, it appeared that the events depicted were mostly as described: A young woman with short hair, wearing boyish attire, seemed to be forcefully ejected from a women's bathroom by police of unknown jurisdiction. However, the incident was unrelated to the passage of HB2 in North Carolina.
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