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Maya Dillard Smith in 2012. Smith, who recently began a job as interim director of the ACLU of Georgia, quit after expressing disagreement with the organization's current emphasis on transgender rights.

ACLU director quits after daughters express fear at transgenders in restroom

June 1, 2016

By Gregory Tomlin, Christian Examiner

ATLANTA (Christian Examiner) – The interim director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia has resigned amid the organization’s push back against North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom law” (HB 2), which prohibits those born biologically male from using multi-occupancy female restrooms and vice versa.

The ACLU is suing North Carolina’s governor in federal court in Carcano v. McCrory, which alleges the law prohibiting transgender access to multi-occupancy restrooms in government is a form of “insidious discrimination.”

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