Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has banned government travel to North Carolina and Mississippi over the states’ controversial transgender laws.

With her order, Rawlings-Blake has chosen sides in the escalating showdown between the two Southern states and U.S. Department of Justice, which sued North Carolina to block the bathroom law. North Carolina’s governor answered with a countersuit, asking a judge to rule that the law is not discriminatory.

Mayors of New York, Seattle and San Francisco have also banned their government workers from traveling to North Carolina on business.

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Baltimore is a tire fire of racial anger and inequality but god forbid bathrooms be gender based.