Republican leaders in North Carolina seem to be more worried about keeping transgender individuals out of public restrooms than they are about protecting residents from natural disasters.

North Carolina lawmakers have reportedly taken $500,000 from the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund and directed it to Governor Pat McCrory to be spent defending HB2, the anti-LGBT law passed by lawmakers and signed by Gov. Pat McCrory in March. The bill, among other things, mandates that transgender state employees and students use restrooms of the gender they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. The bill also blocks local municipalities from passing any LGBT protection laws.

“The governor asked for it,” said Senate Budget Chairman Harry Brown (R-Onslow).

The state is facing mounting legal bills resulting from the law, and Brown says that lawmakers don’t know how much money would be needed to defend the law.

HB2 is currently being “revised,” an attempt by legislators to keep the National Basketball Association’s 2017 All-Star Game from leaving the state over the anti-LGBT law.

A draft of the proposed changes was leaked earlier this week, and has already been rejected by the Hornets organization.

“We have been engaged in dialogue with numerous groups at the city and state levels, but we do not endorse the version of the bill that we understand is currently before the legislature,” the team said in a joint statement with the NBA.

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