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Trump: Transgenders Should 'Use the Bathroom That They Feel Is Appropriate'
CNS News ^ | April 21, 2016 | Susan Jones

Posted on 04/21/2016 6:53:01 AM PDT by xzins

Republican Donald Trump says he'd be fine with Caitlyn Jenner using the bathroom of her choice at Trump Tower. (AP File Photo)

(CNSNews.com) - Republican Donald Trump, appearing on Thursday's "Today" show, said transgenders should be allowed to "use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate."

"So if Caitlyn Jenner were to walk into Trump Tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses?" host Matt Lauer asked Trump.

"That is correct," Trump said.

Asked for his view on the North Carolina bathroom controversy, Trump said the state has "paid a big price" for requiring transgenders to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex.

"Leave it the way it is," he said.

"One of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday, saying 'Leave it the way it is right now.' There have been very few problems. Leave it the way it is. North Carolina, what they're going through with all of the business that's leaving and all of the strife, and that's on both sides -- you leave it the way it is.

"There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go, they use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble. And the problem with what happened in North Carolina is the strife, and the -- the economic punishment that they're taking."

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Trump said he doesn't know if he has any transgender people working for him. "I probably do, I really don't know."

Trump noted that there's a "big move to create new bathrooms" for transgenders.

"First of all, I think that would be discriminatory in a certain way. It would be unbelievably expensive for businesses and for the country. Leave it the way it is."


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To: miss marmelstein

Believe he meant NC shouldn’t have passed the most recent law.


101 posted on 04/21/2016 7:15:36 AM PDT by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: VanDeKoik

Leave who to decide? You mean the man with a skirt/ pedophile who goes into women’s bathrooms to abuse girls? They should be able to decide? Really?

Did you not see the news article out of the west coast ( Seattle I think) where a group of women and girls had to deal with a man who came into a female changing room at a pool and exposed himself. When the police were called they said there was nothing they could do. Is this what we have decided as a society? Really?


102 posted on 04/21/2016 7:15:39 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: fooman

“I wont attack Trump on allowing men in women’s bathrooms.”

He did not say he wanted to allow men in women’s bathrooms.


103 posted on 04/21/2016 7:16:29 AM PDT by odawg
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To: refermech

Mickyey Rourke...THE WRESTLER


104 posted on 04/21/2016 7:16:39 AM PDT by jetson
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To: xzins

We’ve both said our piece. I’m just gonna go off and ponder other matters. Take care friend.


105 posted on 04/21/2016 7:16:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: liberalh8ter
I'd prefer he reveal himself for what he really is before it's too late.


106 posted on 04/21/2016 7:16:52 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: xzins
So a mentally ill trans-man can be in the bathroom with my 6 year old daughter?

Gotcha.

107 posted on 04/21/2016 7:17:36 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: xzins

It’s hard to feel sympathy for North Carolina. Government should not be dictating which potty to use. Businesses should be allowed to set their own rules as they see fit.


108 posted on 04/21/2016 7:17:40 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Gaffer

The article wasn’t written out of whole cloth, the man said these things.


109 posted on 04/21/2016 7:17:48 AM PDT by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: Night Hides Not

It’s too late. What do you think Trump would do if he was denied the candidacy at this point?


110 posted on 04/21/2016 7:18:44 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: longfellowsmuse

“Leave who to decide”

The states.

NC folded like a cheap chair in less than a week, so I’m not holding my breath.


111 posted on 04/21/2016 7:18:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: CA Conservative

Seems like if we say we are against men going into women’s bathroom, we run the risk of being against Trump.


112 posted on 04/21/2016 7:19:03 AM PDT by fooman (#NeverHillary Get real with Kin Jung mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: liberalh8ter

It is already too late. He has cinched the nomination. ( anyone saying anything different is just trying to get ratings by creating drama) For better or for worse Trump is what we’ve got.


113 posted on 04/21/2016 7:19:38 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Transgender is what anyone in the perversion game wants it to be. There really isn’t a clearly defined accepted definition of it. It’s the reason why you see most of the homosexuals on Jerry Springer acting like women telling the poor men they’re fooled into thinking they’re a woman “I was born a male”.

Says absolutely nothing definitive to hide the fact they have a some junk still swinging between their legs.


114 posted on 04/21/2016 7:19:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BigEdLB
Post surgery? Why not?

He made no such qualifications. He specifically mentioned Bruce Jenner (I refuse to call him Caitlyn), who has not had the surgery, and said he would be fine with Jenner using the women's bathroom in one of his buildings.

He also said to have separate bathrooms available for the confused (I also won't call them "transgender") would be, in his words, "discriminatory".

115 posted on 04/21/2016 7:19:55 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: xzins

Again, last fall and into winter I really liked Trump a lot.

I ignored conservative friends telling me he was a misinformed liberal dope who was pandering to our side just to get votes.

The fact he’s not taking a stand on the bathroom bill again reaffirms my decision to switch support from Trump to Ted Cruz.

The bathroom bill is the one line in the sand we need to hold firm on. And the country will support us on this even if “Bruce Springsteen” disapproves.


116 posted on 04/21/2016 7:20:36 AM PDT by SteveAustin
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To: Tennessee Nana

It is obvious to me that any facility having public restrooms should remodel them all into private entry, single person efficiency bathrooms. Then, like at the little league park, the port-o-let is either occupied or it isn’t.

It is TOO EASY a fix.


117 posted on 04/21/2016 7:20:44 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Iron Munro

Correct. There isn’t any way that Oberfell is going to be repealed, that ship has sailed. I believe the same is true about abortion, without a fifth conservative justice, the TRAP laws are probably going to fall this summer. And they were the last best hope.


118 posted on 04/21/2016 7:20:52 AM PDT by Charlie Browns Gun
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To: windsorknot

....and Melania is in the “Lady’s” Room, and a transgender flake walks in......


119 posted on 04/21/2016 7:20:57 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: xzins

What did you expect? Anything ‘other’ than liberalism? [shaking head in disbelief]

I suppose it could be worse. He could be pushing to ‘fundamentally transform’ public bathrooms everywhere to cater to the .03 percent of the population at the expense of the 99.97 percent, the vast majority of other Americans.

Then again, maybe he’s just thinking of his own personal ‘bottom line’ incurred costs of having to do that in all of his properties. Whatever works.


120 posted on 04/21/2016 7:21:33 AM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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