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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gov. Pat McCrory has signed an executive order addressing concerns regarding House Bill 2.

The governor's office says the executive order is meant to clarify existing state law "and provides new protections for North Carolina residents."

According to the governor's office, Executive Order 93 does the following:

Maintains common sense gender-specific restroom and locker room facilities in government buildings and schools

Affirms the private sector’s right to establish its own restroom and locker room policies

Affirms the private sector and local governments’ right to establish its own non-discrimination employment policies for its own employees

Expands the state’s employment policy for state employees to cover sexual orientation and gender identity

Seeks legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination

“After listening to people’s feedback for the past several weeks on this issue, I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion, a lot of passion and frankly, selective outrage and hypocrisy, especially against the great state of North Carolina,” McCrory said in a statement. “Based upon this feedback, I am taking action to affirm and improve the state’s commitment to privacy and equality.”

Senate Leader Phil Berger issued the following response to McCrory's executive order:

“Gov. McCrory just put to rest the left's lies about HB 2 and proved it allows private and public employers, non-profits and churches the ability to adopt nondiscrimination policies that are stronger than state and federal law. But that fact is irrelevant to Roy Cooper and his left-wing political correctness mob with their agenda-driven allies in the liberal media, who will never stop trashing North Carolina until they achieve their goal of allowing any man into any women's bathroom or locker room at any time simply by claiming to feel like a woman.”

ACLU of North Carolina Acting Executive Director Sarah Prested said in response, in part:

“Gov. McCrory’s actions today are a poor effort to save face after his sweeping attacks on the LGBT community, and they fall far short of correcting the damage done when he signed into law the harmful House Bill 2, which stigmatizes and mandates discrimination against gay and transgender people. With this executive order, LGBT individuals still lack legal protections from discrimination, and transgender people are still explicitly targeted by being forced to use the wrong restroom."

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper tweeted the following response:

https://twitter.com/RoyCooperNC/status/719983298571870209/photo/1

Watch Gov. McCrory's full statement below:

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