In recent days, athletic directors at North Carolina’s four A.C.C. member universities — the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; North Carolina State; Duke; and Wake Forest — issued statements expressing concern about the law or its effects.  In a joint statement, the chancellors of U.N.C. and North Carolina State, Carol L. Folt and Randy Woodson, said Wednesday: “We appreciate the Council of Presidents’ reaffirmation of the A.C.C.’s strong commitment to diversity and inclusion,” adding, “However, we regret today’s decision will negatively affect many North Carolinians, especially in the affected host communities.”  Hours after the A.C.C. announced its move, Gov. Pat McCrory, who is seeking re-election this fall, used a statement to repeat, verbatim, 67 of the words he used Tuesday to comment about the N.C.A.A.’s decision. Mr. McCrory, on Tuesday and Wednesday, said he encouraged “all public and private institutions to both respect and allow our nation’s judicial system to proceed without economic threats or political retaliation.”  Mr. McCrory did not specifically criticize the A.C.C., but this week, he described the N.C.A.A. as “a multibillion-dollar, tax-exempt monopoly” that had not demonstrated respect for student-athletes.  The speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Tim Moore, said the decisions by the N.C.A.A. and the A.C.C. were “very unfortunate.”  “No one ever wants to lose events under any circumstances, but these organizations are certainly entitled to host their events wherever they choose,” Mr. Moore, a Republican who supports H.B. 2, said. “The truth remains that this law was never about and does not promote discrimination.”  Residents of North Carolina shared mixed opinions on the N.C.A.A.’s announcement to pull seven championship events from the state because of a law that curbed the rights of gay and transgender people.  Mr. McCrory’s Democratic rival, Roy Cooper, the state’s attorney general, said in a video released Wednesday that the governor had shown “no leadership.”  “This is not just about sports,” Mr. Cooper said. “This is about communities in North Carolina suffering real economic blows.”  The conference, which said it would announce future sites, has just a few weeks to relocate its first affected championship, for women’s soccer, which had been scheduled to take place in Cary beginning Oct. 30, and less than three months to find a new venue for its marquee event, the football championship game, scheduled for Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte on Dec. 3.  Six other championships featuring sports like men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s golf and baseball are scheduled to be held at in-state venues. The men’s A.C.C. basketball tournament, frequently held in the state, was already set to be staged at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.  Some championships hosted by specific universities will not be affected, like the men’s and women’s cross-country championships at North Carolina State.  Beyond those championships and regular-season A.C.C. games, the other major college sports event set to take place in the state is the Belk Bowl, which will pit an A.C.C. football team against one from the Southeastern Conference on Dec. 29 in Charlotte.  The Charlotte Sports Foundation, which hosts the Belk Bowl and the A.C.C. football championship, said in a statement Wednesday that it was “disappointed” that the football title game was moving, adding, “We recognize the economic impact moving the game and its events have on the Charlotte area.”  Frank Kay, a spokesman for the host organization, said there were no talks about relocating the Belk Bowl.  Mr. Swofford had presaged the A.C.C.’s decision in a statement late Monday night, saying that the N.C.A.A.’s action “continues to build upon the negative impact” the law “has already had on the state” and adding that he personally felt the law should “be repealed as it’s counter to basic human rights.”  Charlotte, which is North Carolina’s largest city and which Mr. McCrory governed as mayor for 14 years, has been especially hard hit by the fallout from the law. In addition to the A.C.C. title game, the National Basketball Association’s 2017 All-Star Game was withdrawn from the city this summer in reaction to the law.  Charlotte’s municipal efforts to strengthen legal protections for transgender people were part of what prodded the General Assembly to pass H.B. 2.  “The cancellation of the 2016 A.C.C. football championship is a blow to Charlotte’s visitor economy and is irreplaceable at this late date,” said Tom Murray, the chief executive of the Charlotte Regional Visitors’ Authority, which estimated that the A.C.C.’s 2015 football title game had an economic impact of more than $32 million.  But the mounting economic toll spreads far beyond Charlotte, ensnaring cities like Greensboro and Cary, which is just outside Raleigh and had been scheduled to host N.C.A.A. championships in baseball, lacrosse, tennis and soccer.  Mayor Nancy Vaughan of Greensboro, whose father was a longtime A.C.C. official, said in an interview Tuesday, “We are in the process right now of bidding games and tournaments for the next four years, so we are really looking at the possibility of a five-year drought.”  Scott Dupree, the executive director of the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance, said that for sports events in North Carolina, this week has been “unprecedented and historically bad, probably the worst ever in terms of lost business and damage to our brand.”  A version of this article appears in print on September 15, 2016, on page B11 of the New York edition with the headline: A.C.C. Joins Exodus Over North Carolina Law. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
Citing an anti-gay-rights law it called “inconsistent” with the conference’s values, the league will relocate neutral site championships.