Obama calls for Mississippi and North Carolina's anti-LGBT legislations to be overturned

Obama calls for anti-LGBT laws to be overturned.

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last updated 23 April 2016

President Obama joined the many voices calling for North Carolina and Mississippi to overturn recent anti-LGBT legislation during a joint press with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron in London on Friday.

"I also think the laws that have been passed there are wrong and should be overturned and they're in response to politics in part and some strong emotions that are generated by people," Obama said of the laws that remove anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people and require transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender on their birth certificate.

Obama also addressed the travel advisory issued by the British government this week that warned members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities about the anti-LGBT laws and also that "attitudes towards LGBT people differ hugely" across the U.S. Obama assured the Brits that "the people of North Carolina and Mississippi are wonderful people." "If you guys come to North Carolina or Mississippi," Obama said, "everybody will be treated well.”