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Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said North Carolina's HB2 violates both Title VII and Title IX. Ms. Gupta said that because gender identity is tangentially related to biological sex as determined by chromosomes and genitalia, prohibitions on "sex" discrimination apply to "gender identity." (Associated Press)

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Vanita Gupta speaks after receiving a 2004 Reebok Human Rights Award, Wednesday, May 5, 2004, in New York. Gupta, a New York-based attorney, received her award for helping win the pardons of 35 black Americans who had been arrested on trumped-up drug charges in Texas. (AP Photo/Mike Appleton) **FILE**