If there was one piece of advice the Foreign Office was going to give to British citizens travelling to the USA you might think it would be to wary of lunatics armed to the hilt with semi-automatics. But no, our civil servants do not regard the possibility of having your ass shot off as you innocently backpack around the backwoods of North Carolina to be worthy of a warning.
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There is one piece of advice the Foreign Office has put on its website, though. It states: ‘LGBT travellers may be affected by legislation passed recently in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi.’ The laws to which it refers are House Bill 2 in North Carolina, which obliges transgender people to use lavatories related to their original gender, and the Religious Liberty Accommodations Act in Mississippi, which offers people protection against discrimination cases if, for example, they refuse on religious grounds to allow a gay couple to share a bed in a guest house they run.
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