Trump: Transgenders Should 'Use the Bathroom That They Feel Is Appropriate'

CNS News ^ | April 21, 2016 | Susan Jones

[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."

[Salvation]

I wonder if he has thought of the Genesis quote:

“Male and female he created them.”

[ScottinVA]

Read the article again

Thanks... link didn't work for me on the first or second try.

[fooman]

Or they just charge you with assault and a hate crime.

[texas_mrs]

how do you know ??? Glenn Beck is for same sex marriage...

Beck is not FOR gay marriage - he is against the government being involved in marriage. There is a BIG difference there.

[Trumpinator]

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 article mentioned Bruce Jenner's use of Trumps bathrooms. I have some background in law - I would love to see this case of a public masturbation in front of a child that was -ahem- untouchable by law enforcement.

[DiogenesLamp]

Conservatives go off the rails when they start to want to impose values on others. We hate values imposed on us so we should not be doing it back to the left.

I get disgusted when I hear this attempt at illegitimate reasoning. Among other things, it is a form of false equivalency between what is natural and what is perverted.

But mostly it is a naive assumption that we can have a system where someone's values are not going to get shoved down the throats of people who disagree with them.

Let me set you straight. *ALL LAWS* are someone's values being shoved down everyone's throat. All laws are some form of imposed morality.

You don't get to pick "none of the above." You get to pick a version of morality, and if you don't pick what is natural, you will get what is unnatural shoved down your throat.

Yes I want to *IMPOSE* values on others. Nature does not tolerate a vacuum, and if we don't impose ours, they will impose theirs, and their values lead to misery, sickness, death and bloodshed. We know this because humanity has gone down the path of *their* values too many times, and always with horrible consequences.

[xzins]

I am not pleased

[xzins]

I doubt it.

This isn’t good, Salvation.

[Trumpinator]

But he his way, way off on this if he is saying a guy who is still attracted to women should be using the women’s bathroom. That’s messed up man. I mean come on.

Trump did not say that. Are we talking about Bruce Jenner?

[HLPhat]

>> If we don’t stop the invasion nothing else matters, IMO.

Ever notice how "the invasion" wasn't at the top of the list of strategic objectives Bezmenov disclosed?

Yeah WE'RE THERE.

[I want the USA back]

What I would have said:
“Did you ask a democrat this same question? No, of course not.
Personally, I don’t care which bathroom a person uses. What I resent is your trying to force me to make my opinions conform to what you feel is politically correct.
Just realize that you are subjecting women to ogling. Remember that you are making that happen. I know what you’re up to: you are trying to force us to reject the cultural conditioning that we received as children, and to accept your new, politically correct norm.
Next question.”

[Charlie Browns Gun]

That doesn’t refute reality. Gays can get married in all 50 states. Period. Now please explain how that gets repealed. You keep dodging my very specifric request.

[elcid1970]

“...going to charge into said restroom upon hearing a scream...”

You just nailed it! Every husband & father should advise his wife or daughters to let out a bloodcurdling SCREAM if a perv makes a move on them, and he will come charging in like a raging bull!

[EternalVigilance]

This battle is lost. I’ve yet to hear from anyone how Oberfell is repealed.

Well, you certainly haven't been listening to me.

Illicit court opinions need not be "repealed."

According to the fundamental principles, not just of America but of Western Civilization going all the way back to Cicero, laws or decrees which violate the laws of nature and nature's God or our Constitution are NULL AND VOID. In other words, legally, they simply DO NOT EXIST. In other words, they can only be ignored.

Any politician who doesn't understand this simple principle has disqualified himself from consideration for any office of public trust.

[Trumpinator]

Yes I want to *IMPOSE* values on others.

How not limited govt of you.

[Ransomed]

Bruce Jenner is still attracted to women, is he not?

Freegards

[grania]

Uhhh....wouldn’t world civilization be better off if we were discussing ways to stop ISIS from chopping off heads?

[DiogenesLamp]

If social issues are front and center Cruz loses badly. Sorry.

If social issues are not addressed, the nation dies anyway.

You think this stuff is unimportant because you have the small vantage point of your own life, but societies last for generations. You simply don't see the bigger picture. You need to broaden the scope of your mind beyond one lifetime to understand why social issues are important in the long term.

Here's a good place to start.

[fireman15]

My thoughts exactly. It is liberals who are making this into some type of issue. They are the ones who want the laws changed. Under current law if people are making nuisances of themselves in restrooms they can be arrested. We do not need to start legislating about non-issues. We live in one of the most liberal freak filled areas in the country and it has never been an issue that has affected me and no one has ever complained to me about it affecting them either.

[B Knotts]

Agree, but that is not the situation on the ground. The left is using every level of government to enforce its will. Conservatives sometimes have to use government to block them.