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."
AD FEEDBACK
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."
Post surgery? Why not?
“Crap like this doesn’t come out of the Cruz campaign”
Cruz said he isn’t going to touch issues dealing with gay marriage last year.
So feel free to ask Ted what his position is on this, and get back to us.
To HELL with Big Media. They'll trash Trump the way they trashed Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Bush, Reagan, Ford, Nixon ... The truth has NEVER mattered to Big Media.
The Bitch waddles into the WH in 2017 and we are all royally f****d. Most messed up Republican campaign known to man.
I know many of you don’t like Ted Cruz but one thing is certain, once you get past all the lies that Trump has told on him, he is still the same consistent Conservative he has always been. Take another look at Ted Cruz and give him a chance. At least you know where he stands..
Absolutely. We know exactly where Cruz stands. Ted Cruz stood with Wall Street and Barack Obama and against Main Street to enable Obamatrade. One of the great issues of our time and Ted Cruz abandoned us on it.
It is anti-creation
You know...I support Trump, but this is deserving of that Face-Palm idiot response.
Wonder if Jeb & Lindsay will support him now after this comment?
I don’t think anybody would stop Caitlin Jenner going into the woman’s room. Would you if you didn’t know her?
This issue scares me because I’ve had to deal with transgenders in NYC - they are mentally ill and often high on drugs. And once in Rome, I came upon a lunatic man in the women’s room in a department store. I got out of there quick but it’s seared in my memory. But it’s the natural outcome of lunatic gay rights movement.
I think Donald doesn’t realize that in North Carolina a single city made a more accommodating law for transgenders, and then the State government nullified it.
Trump says (a) he’s not worried about transgenders deciding on their own which bathroom they use (which they’ve been doing all along), and (b) the State’s nullification of the Charlotte thing has caused a lot of unnecessary bad publicity for NC. He believes the issue should have been left alone.
Of course Charlotte started it with their unnecessary local law. A NC politician said today that he’s not aware of a single problem with transgenders using public restrooms.
Wonder what Trump’s position on Curt Schilling is?
ESPN good to fire?
Re: Your snotty post #43
So you don’t think this sexual pervert issue was around before Trump?
You think he is responsible for it, not the liberals, perverts and politically correct in government and the courts?
In your view he created it all with one offhand comment?
He’s right about it being terribly expensive for the country to legislate the reconfiguration of all toilet facilities everywhere and have them come to fruition. How many small businesses will not be able to afford remodeling? Not to mention the possibilities of lawsuits from both sides over this: those demanding equal access to facilities and those who have been attacked in them. (Make-work for lawyers) It’s a can of worms, and the Devil is happy to have opened it.
Howcum these pervs aren’t invading mens’ rooms & harrassing men?
‘Cause they’ll get the s*** beat out of them. Bottom line.
I'm not. A man who has never repented of his sins will never shock me with what he says.
it took me a while to understand what transgender really was...
personally I don’t think the more obvious questions were put to Trump...
the transgender supporters are devious...
1. Bruce Jenner still has all his working male parts...for a while even I thought that “problem” had been surgically removed...
2. Trump is nearly 70 years old as I am...he thinks someone would just choose to go to the room of his birth gender..
3. Ask him about multi stall bathrooms...
I’d stop Bruce quick. Didn’t he kill a woman while texting and driving? He’s no monument to morality. He’s a freak.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.