Watch Megyn Kelly interrogate North Carolina's governor over the state's bathroom law

Fox News host Megyn Kelly pushed North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) Thursday night on The Kelly File to clear up her confusion over the state's controversial anti-LGBT law requiring transgender people to use the bathroom corresponding to the gender given on their birth certificates. Namely, Kelly wanted to know whether McCrory knew how women's bathrooms were set up.

"I want to ask you about bathrooms because I've been in women's bathrooms my whole life," Kelly said. "We don't have the urinal situation. We've got like the stalls. And we get to go in, we do our business and like we don't — it's not — we don't see each other. So why are you concerned about young girls exposing themselves or seeing somebody else exposed in a women's bathroom?"

McCrory's responded by calling the law "common sense" relating to an "expectation of privacy."

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"I can't believe we're talking about this," he said, adding that the issue in particular was started by the left, not the right. "I'm not doing it — I don't like the rhetoric that's often used on the right saying what the fear is," McCrory said. "It's a basic expectation of privacy that I hear from mom and dad and families that when their daughter or son goes into a facility, a restroom, they expect people of that gender, of that biological sex or gender, to be the only other ones in that room."

Watch the exchange below. Becca Stanek