Your comment goes to the rank "humanists" who propose the idea of people redefining themselves as a matter of personal whim. That does not go to the Trump comment, which relates to how the State responds to an idiotic local ordinance.
I agree with you; and have never accepted humanist pretensions; or their ideological cousins in socialist movements, who believe that man can reinvent himself by changing his social environment. I just do not see this as an issue in the Presidential election.
I don’t read the comments about North Carolina that way.
I read them as capitulation.