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."
I do not support Donald Trump on every thing that he says, only to the extent that he is needed as President, to deal with what are Federal Issues.
The point should be obvious.
You think acquiescing to something that has been regarded as a sickness for more than 2,000 years is a "sane, coherent answer"?
Read the article again. He addresses the subject broadly to include the situation in North Carolina. This comment wasn’t just about Trump Towers.
>>Conservatives go off the rails when they start to want to impose values on others
What’s the “due penalty for perversion” cited in Romans chapter 1 — and who made those natural values?
90% chance he changes by the evening news. Otherwise he’s in trouble.
No wonder the establishment wants this clown out.
Yes, it’s a great quality for a presidential candidate.
I saw this article too.
There have already been many attacks on women because of this policy.
I have four daughters.
:>)
Ok, I’ll let it pass.
I’m fired up right now.
But Trump said the basis should be whatever a person thinks their sex is. Like he is OK with his own business doing this. To the point that he must not care about his other customers who do have a problem with that being the basis of his business allowing whoever into whatever bathroom.
I think everyone should decide for their own business. But he obviously made completely the wrong choice here, right? Or am I missing something? I mean, it is either good or bad for culture, apart from any private business gains or losses, right?
Freegards
Bruce Jenner? NO. But a man on the west coast did. Read the news. And the police indeed said there was nothing they could do.
This was stupid on his part.
I’ll not support it.
In only your wildest dreams. His ACTION was to shoot his mouth off without thinking, and expose his liberal New York values. New York values have nothing to do with response to a tragedy a decade and a half ago, they have to do with electing a communist mayor now, as well as supporting allowing men in girls bathrooms..
Bruce Jenner is a “he”. There is no “Caitlyn Jenner”.
It’s really disgusting to see supposed conservatives on a supposedly conservative forum pandering to perverts.
Trump is just saying keep things as they are now. Shocking, isn’t it?
Now I see Cruz has already trying to score points on Trump’s answer to a hypothetical question. The man finds a microphone faster than Al Sharpton. What a charlatan Ted Cruz is.
It's illegal no matter what to masturbate in public as far as I know. No matter what. And also - last I bothered to look transvestites are not granted female bathroom access. Transgenders actually have a piece of paper showing they went through hormone therapy and psyche evaluations and had operations to change so they can show cops. I personally think gender re-assignment should be banned as quackery that takes advantage of mentally ill people (see the south park episode that made fun of "trans" people) but I know the law. And what you described is not the legal way of it - your scenario is not how it works.
Personally, I admire Trump for not checking with an adviser before answering hypothetical questions about non-issues that do not affect basically anyone in real life. I am sure it would offend less people if he just said, “Why don’t we limit the question to serious issues.” There is no good solution for someone like “Caitlyn” who dresses like a woman but still has a penis. He is a freak and no matter which bathroom he chooses to use someone is not going to like it.
We live near Seattle one of the most liberal cities not just in the country, but in the world. Percentage wise I would guess that we have as many or probably more “LGBT” people around as any place in the country. And neither my wife or I have ever noticed a “transgender” person using a public restroom while we were in one. They probably have, but they didn’t make a spectacle of themselves, so we didn’t notice. None of our friends have ever complained to us about a “transgender” person using the restroom and making them uncomfortable.
The restroom problems we do notice are people from certain ethnic groups not flushing the toilet after they use it and also peeing all over the floor and toilet and leaving poop smears on various items. It is disgusting. There have been also boys and girls of grade school age running around inside of bathrooms with their parents of the opposite sex accompanying them. This is appropriate, but can be a little annoying at times when the kid is obnoxious in some way.
If freaks start causing widespread problems in public restrooms then this might be something we should start worrying about. Harassing other people in a public restroom will still get you arrested right now with our current laws regardless of what your sexual preference or biological identity is. I don’t think that it is necessary to waste time coming up with legislative solutions for nonissues. Lets worry about the real problems first.
which is a gaping chasm of keeping abortion as a form of birth control. IOW, not a damn thing will change.
I have three.
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