The Southern Conference has chosen to keep four upcoming league championships in North Carolina despite a state law that restricts the rights of LGBT people.
Southern Conference officials announced Friday that they will not join the NBA, NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference, all of which recently said they will shift major sporting events to other states.
The Southern Conference has title events in men's soccer, men's golf and men's and women's basketball scheduled at North Carolina sites during the 2016-17 school year.
The presidents and chancellors of Southern Conference schools said they would follow their schedule as planned but "reaffirmed their resolute opposition to legislation that discriminates against any individual."
The North Carolina law, passed last spring, limits legal protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people at hotels, shops and restaurants. It also restricts the bathrooms and locker rooms that transgender people can use.
