"...Discrimination has no place in America," Hillary Clinton tweeted. | Getty Clinton praises NCAA for pulling North Carolina events

Hillary Clinton heaped praise on the National Collegiate Athletic Association after it announced Monday that it would relocate all of its championship events from North Carolina scheduled for the current year in response to recent laws, that among other aspects, limit transgender people from using the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity.

"The @NCAA is right to pull tournament games from North Carolina because of the anti-LGBT HB2 law. Discrimination has no place in America," Clinton tweeted Tuesday morning.


Among the championship events that will have to be relocated are the Division I women's soccer championship in December; the first- and second-round games of the Division I men's basketball tournament in March; and the Division I women's lacrosse championship, in May.

The NCAA said in a statement that its board of governors concluded that the state's current laws "make it challenging to guarantee that host communities can help deliver on that commitment if NCAA events remained in the state."

The state GOP called the move "political peacocking," ripping the association for its move that state GOP spokeswoman Kami Mueller said amounted to an "assault to female athletes across the nation."