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Donald Trump Says Transgender People Should Use the Bathroom They Want
New York Times ^ | 04/21/2016 | Ashley Parker

Posted on 04/21/2016 9:53:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.

Dipping into a contentious issue by taking a stand many Republicans oppose, Mr. Trump told a town-hall-style event, hosted by NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, that when people go to the restroom, they should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.”

Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, was responding to a question about a bill that North Carolina’s governor signed into law last month that bars individuals in the state from using public bathrooms that don’t correspond to their biological sex — the one listed on their birth certificate. Since then, there has been a backlash from businesses and celebrities opposed to the state’s action. And transgender issues have pitted social conservatives against business interests that traditionally have been part of the Republican coalition in the South and elsewhere.

“North Carolina did something — it was very strong — and they’re paying a big price,” Mr. Trump said. “And there’s a lot of problems. And I heard — one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it is, right now.”

He added that before the law passed, there had been “very few problems” but now North Carolina is experiencing an exodus of businesses and “strife” from people on both sides of the issue.

“You leave it the way it is,” he said. “There have been very few complaints the way it is.”

North Carolina’s law, which also removed anti-discrimination protections for L.G.B.T. people, and the backlash to it, is now at the heart of the state’s hotly contested governor’s race.

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To: servantboy777

And wicked women are wicked but they get to go in the ladies’ room right now. How about banning wicked women?


121 posted on 04/21/2016 10:54:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tranny bathrooms are a state and local issue. The Federale Gov’t has nothing to do with this garbage. Its a gotcha issue, a trap for Trump. A tar baby. So Trump blew them off by essentially saying “whatever”.

Trump gave the media the answer that will keep the loony toon gays and trannies off his back. I would have done the same.


122 posted on 04/21/2016 10:55:41 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: IamConservative

These bathrooms were beautiful and luxurious. All the stalls had walls made with 1-1/2” thick marble. Even the claw-foot bathtubs were enclosed. And I always took a bubble bath.


123 posted on 04/21/2016 10:58:53 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If lesbian woman had demonstrated the same rate of pedophilia as gay men...perhaps you'd have a point.

So, just to be clear. Are you in support of transgendered men sharing bathrooms, showers, locker rooms with woman?

I'm getting this sense reading your posts.

124 posted on 04/21/2016 10:59:32 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: dennisw

And he correctly pointed out the economic punishment that is going on for something that no one has yet to demomstrate was a epidemic problem. Hence the leave it as it is remark. If a perv of ANY gender or preference is acting out in a bathroom and harming someone we already deal with that.

Liberals love more laws for imagined crises.


125 posted on 04/21/2016 11:02:39 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Yep. So we should go ahead and make it legal and easier to do.... I mean, my forefathers couldn’t stop abortion, so we legalized it. We can’t stop pot, so we are legalizing it too. So since we can’t stop voyeurism or get trans people to a psychologist, we should just give up on that as well.

Right. Evil wins when good men do nothing.


126 posted on 04/21/2016 11:05:11 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously, the NYT thinks this is worthy of being picked up and broadcast. I don’t care what the phuque anyone thinks about rooms set aside for piddling.


127 posted on 04/21/2016 11:08:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: EinNYC

“Claiming to be transgender.” How can you claim to be transgender? Either you is or you ain’t.

A guy or gal who’s had a sex change should use the bathroom they’re comfortable with. I’m a man, I shouldn’t be using a woman’s bathroom, sorry. Bruce Jenner should use the man’s room.


128 posted on 04/21/2016 11:09:31 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Think of how stupid the average person is; realize half of them are stupider than that. Geo Carlin.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Making Christian businesses bake cakes is not the same principle. That is essentially forced labor, which is slavery. Private business owners have the right to decide when, how, and for whom they will work.

If you can find me in the Constitution where it says I have the right to keep some mentally ill woman who thinks she’s a man from pooping in the bathroom stall next to mine, I’ll change my mind.

My rights end where the next person’s begin, and the real rights here are the rights of the person who owns the bathroom. They should get to decide, and gov’t should stay out of it.


129 posted on 04/21/2016 11:12:23 AM PDT by LNV (Nov. 2016-Trump the B!tch!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m disappointed with Trump on this. It’s such an easy ball to hit.


130 posted on 04/21/2016 11:13:12 AM PDT by Crucial ( Our)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump is weak on the gay issue, worried about business more than about morality of it.....


131 posted on 04/21/2016 11:15:23 AM PDT by the jogger
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To: yoe

“Donald Trump Says Transgender People Should Use the Bathroom They Want”

Says it all


132 posted on 04/21/2016 11:19:40 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: dennisw

Personally, I wish he just said, “That’s a state law. Presidents’ do not deal with state laws,” and left it at that. I’m sure he would have been badgered to give his opinion, but he could have evaded it by saying that he didn’t want to interfere in or influence North Carolina’s controversial legislation one way or the other, because it is an internal state issue and likely to come up before the courts.


133 posted on 04/21/2016 11:20:46 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: VaeVictis
Yep. So we should go ahead and make it legal and easier to do

That's dumb because it was already legal insomuch that there were no laws on the books about keeping men in drag out of the women's restroom. Best case scenario, anyway, is that you would funnel all of the perverts out of the women's restroom, and straight into the men's restroom with your son.

It's the most infantile hill to die on when there are more important issues.

134 posted on 04/21/2016 11:21:23 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: magna carta
"He must however stand firm on sovereignty issues."

You mean like when he backtracked today on immigration and signaled openness to a path to citizenship?

135 posted on 04/21/2016 11:21:39 AM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: servantboy777
Gender confused men are emotionally disturbed. It is a safety issue for our sisters, moms and wives.

So are Muzzies, but there are more important hills to die on than funneling perverts from the women's restroom into the boy's restroom.

136 posted on 04/21/2016 11:22:13 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: FenwickBabbitt
Personally, I wish he just said, “That’s a state law. Presidents’ do not deal with state laws,” and left it at that. I’m sure he would have been badgered to give his opinion, but he could have evaded it by saying that he didn’t want to interfere in or influence North Carolina’s controversial legislation one way or the other, because it is an internal state issue and likely to come up before the courts.

This is what Trump should have said but the media critter followed up with a question about what the tranny bathroom policy is at Trump Tower. All to get a gothcha question over on The Donald.

137 posted on 04/21/2016 11:26:36 AM PDT by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: DrewsMum
You forgot the sarcasm tag.

I'd hardly say I needed it.

138 posted on 04/21/2016 11:31:09 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
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To: VaeVictis

I agree. It is an issue. How can the increasing legitimization of perversion not be an issue? The pseudo-conservatives of the GAP(Go Along Party)told us for years that sodomite “marriage” was a “non-issue” and to “get over it”. Now they’re spouting the same lame drivel about this issue. How far a slide down the slippery slope do they want us to accept?


139 posted on 04/21/2016 11:32:48 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: Mechanicos
.o3 percent of the population is not going to matter much in an armed population.

Then why pander to them? Unless, of course, you're speaking from the heart.

140 posted on 04/21/2016 11:33:22 AM PDT by Agnes Heep (Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
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