Clerk Kim Davis speaks to a crowd gathered outside the county’s correctional facility on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2015, following her release on a contempt charge.

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The lawyers who represented Kim Davis have offered to defend North Carolina’s transgender law in court after the attorney general has refused to.

The Florida-based Liberty Counsel offered pro bono legal assistance in defending House Bill 2 on Thursday after Attorney General Roy Cooper announced earlier this week that he wouldn’t defend it.

Gov. Pat McCrory signed the bill, called the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, last Wednesday after it was passed by the North Carolina Senate.

The law was in response to Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance that allowed transgender individuals to use public bathrooms of the sex with which they identify.

The bill blocks transgender individuals from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity and stops cities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances to protect gay and transgender people.

Four organizations have challenged the bill, saying it singles out the LGBT community for discrimination. Those organizations include the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Equality NC and Lambda Legal.

The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Defendants listed in the suit include Gov. Pat McCrory, Attorney General Roy Cooper III, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina and board Chairman W. Louis Bissette Jr.

Liberty Counsel defended Kentucky Clerk of Court Kim Davis last year for not issuing marriage licenses to gay couples after gay marriage became legal.

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