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 thought it was a very practical solution. Do I want Women's rest rooms to be for women? Of course. Do I want to jump all over Trump for not giving a politically correct answer? Of course not. His approach would be to put together a group and come up with a solution.
Just out of curiosity, are you a woman?
He needs to get right on this. I will, of course, vote for him in June but he needs to either think through these cultural issues or not speak out on them.
Oh come on. You’ve been slamming anyone who didn’t proclaim their love for Trump for months.
“We can’t blame Trump.”
Yes, I absolutely blaming the blowhard because he’s always been a liberal. You need to wake up
How long before a) he walks this back, and b) his supporters show up to explain why this is now a “conservative” position?
Trump said it.
He gets to live with it or totally retract it.
It will make all the difference in the world to me.
Black is not white. Up is not down.
Male is NOT female.
I simply won’t buy it.
Wow, what a retard.
There is nothing here to say that it was ever explained to Trump about the real problem..
a bathroom to him is a single room where people visit one at a time...where the door can be locked and the person is alone to do their business...
the problem is the room s where there are several stalls and several “visitors”
has someone actually asked him about that situation ???
has anyone said “Mr Trump what do you think about grown men being in the same bathroom with a little girl ??? would you be comfortable with one of your sweet curly hair little granddaughters going to the bathroom with some man watching them ???”
lets see how he would answer something like that ...
plus he may not have really thought about it yet it is a new problem...
he may think that Bruce Jenner is going to go to the men’s room...
I’ve been male my entire life as is every male born male in the history of the human race.
I disagree with him but he will build the wall and he will send them back and he will bring back jobs and he will not get us into useless wars. Remember the President does not make the laws Congress does.
“Leave it the way it is?”
I did not see that program. What did he mean? Leave it the way it is — for the past 100 years?
“It should be no surprise when liberals say liberal things.”
Bingo.
Laura Ingraham is talking about this right now.
I don’t agree with Trump on this. I do not believe we should grant special rights to people based on gender, race or sexual preference. Everybody should be treated the same.
It’s a Catch-22 for a Republican politician however. The leftist press would love to continue to paint Trump as an intolerant man. Right or wrong, I see this response taking a little wind out of those sails.
This is just stupid on his part, Nana.
I’m not making any excuses for stupid.
I’ll go further...this is anti-creation.
There have been no delusions as to Donald Trump being liberal in a lot of his views. I know it’s believed Trump backers are blind to this. Not true. If the most conservative person were in this race and had no fight, no spine, no defying congress, no guts... what would it matter... that’s the problem now, there is no one to fight against what is and what has been going on. I think perhaps one of the defining words of conservatives would be to acquiesce... (easy going ole’ joe who wants to just get along and not ruffle feathers)... incorrect, but sometimes it sounds like that.
This is just another nonsensical hypothetical gotcha question. Trump said the laws should remain the same. That’s what is important.
All public restrooms in every Trump property should remove their gender discrimination signs immediately. That will go over great with the membership I imagine
Well I don’t agree.
But I’m not looking to be 100% in agreement.
Just leave them to decide themselves, and I couldn’t care less.
NY values.
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