Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina is expected to respond on Monday to the Justice Department’s warning that a new state law limiting the rights of transgender people is illegal, after he and the federal government failed to reach an agreement that would have allowed him to postpone his reply.
Mr. McCrory said that he could not assent to the Justice Department’s condition for a one-week extension — an acknowledgment by him that the law is discriminatory — and would answer by 5 p.m. on Monday.
“I’m not going to publicly announce that something discriminates, which is agreeing with their letter, because we’re really talking about a letter in which they’re trying to define gender identity, and there is no clear definition of gender identity,” he said.