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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Get breaking news and SI\u2019s biggest stories instantly. Download the new Sports Illustrated app (iOS&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;Android) and personalize your experience by following your favorite teams and SI writers.&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;U.S. Soccer is reconsidering matches in North Carolina in light of new state legislation that some have pegged as discriminatory against the LGBT community, U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati told&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/em&gt;.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The state\u2019s new law, passed last week in just 12 hours, requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates, rather than the one they identify with.&amp;nbsp;Only transgender people whose biological sex has been changed on their birth certificate are exempt under the new law.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CGiven the legislation, I\u2019ve asked the people who handle our games to reconsider,\u201D Gulati told the &lt;em&gt;Post&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;\u201CWe think the legislation in the year 2016 goes far beyond anything that is appropriate in trying to balance the positions of religious organizations and the long, hard-earned rights by the LGBT community and others.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;STRAUS:&amp;nbsp;USA sees intangibles as key in pivotal victory&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The men\u2019s national team has not played in North Carolina since 2006, though the women\u2019s team played a friendly there as recently as 2014.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The USSF joins the NBA in reconsidering play in the state.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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