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Trump: Transgenders Should 'Use the Bathroom That They Feel Is Appropriate'
CNS News ^ | April 21, 2016 | Susan Jones

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."


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To: Ohioan

I don’t read the comments about North Carolina that way.

I read them as capitulation.


461 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:13 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Trumpinator

You do not jail the victims, you jail the doctors whom perform the procedure illegally once it is made illegal.

Only a monster would want to punish the woman talked into the abortion as well...

Funny, that’s exactly what Trump proposed... amazing...


462 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:14 AM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: xzins

I’m likely to re-read my remarks later and realize that I was unduly harsh and for no good reason, in which case I will come back and beg your pardon.


463 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:18 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: stayathomemom

He won’t and doesn’t think he needs to, Donald Trump will continue to move left. Remember he could “literally shoot someone on the street” and not lose his supporters..


464 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:23 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Trumpinator
I am for govt not enforcing anything as much as possible.

A distinction without a difference. A loop hole so large that you can drive a truck through it.

Let the private sector decide its own bathroom rules.

You know very well (or ought to know) that won't be allowed or tolerated. No. Everyone must march to the same Homo-Nazi goose-step that the State demands.

This is what I mean about you being naive. This isn't about bathrooms, this is about Gleichschaltung!

This notion of "let the private sector decide it's own bathroom rules" is like saying "let the private sector decide who it wants to serve at it's lunch counters."

Stop. Just stop it. Stop trying to pretend there is an easy non-confrontational way out of this. Stop pretending that there is going to be a non-government-forced-down-your-throat-choice. There isn't going to be any such choice.

The Homo Cakes were not about cakes. They were about forcing moral conformity on people who didn't agree with the morality being shoved down their throats.

The public visiting the private establishment can then decide if they should patronize the business or not based on that policy.

Or whether or not they want to patronize a baker that doesn't bake gay wedding cakes.

Right.

465 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:29 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Ransomed
Yeah, that’s always been a problem, but probably not as much as gay men using the men’s. That’s were you get glory holes, wide stances and predation, right?

...and I am pretty sure those acts will remain illegal.

Again, I am not arguing that I approve of trans anything - I personally don't - but this issue not the hill to die on.

466 posted on 04/21/2016 8:38:41 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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To: magna carta

Understood. I’ll probably vote for him too, fwiw.


467 posted on 04/21/2016 8:39:12 AM PDT by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: SteveAustin

I’m from NY and I hate it!!

40 percent plus conservative people doesn’t win a state but certainly doesn’t deem it devoid of all values.


468 posted on 04/21/2016 8:39:15 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: EternalVigilance
Actual conservatives understand that what you want to dismiss with a wave of your liberal hand as "social issues" are actually the moral FOUNDATIONS of the American form of government and claim to self-government in liberty.

Nicely said, thanks!

469 posted on 04/21/2016 8:39:33 AM PDT by wmfights (a stranger in a hostile and foreign land that used to be my home)
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To: Larry Lucido

And your begged pardon will be accepted. :>)


470 posted on 04/21/2016 8:39:49 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: frnewsjunkie

I except Cruz is ‘t a limp liveried fish and he’s a conservative.


471 posted on 04/21/2016 8:39:53 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: xzins

My friend, may I engage you in conversation?

I don’t like this comment of Trump’s, but it was a massive gotcha question, nothing more. I never expected Mr. Trump to be that good on sex issues in the first place, but with the way the SC is going, he’s not going to have much of an effect on them anyways.

Ultimately, this is a weapon that the enemy is trying to use against us. There WAS no right answer to that question.


472 posted on 04/21/2016 8:40:35 AM PDT by Luircin (Supervillians for Trump: We're sick of being the lesser evil!)
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To: lodi90
Well you’re not going to change anything politically without the votes of the “idiocracy”. But do feel free to continue your day dream.

At this point I am coming to the realization that political solutions are simply a pipe dream. Too much momentum has accumulated behind the forces of destruction and our chance to throw the brakes has long past.

I think we are on a collision course with a rock.

473 posted on 04/21/2016 8:40:50 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: EternalVigilance

I’m not a liberal. I’m a realist. And you still never answered my question. You’ve dodged and spun all around it because you know you have no solution.


474 posted on 04/21/2016 8:40:50 AM PDT by Charlie Browns Gun
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To: Genoa

[Yup. There won’t be an acceptable major candidate on the presidential ballot this fall. I won’t vote for this. I just won’t do it.]

Neither will I, which is why I will continue to fight for Ted Cruz to win the nomination!


475 posted on 04/21/2016 8:42:16 AM PDT by KansasGirl (So proud to say, "I voted for Ted Cruz!")
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To: Charlie Browns Gun

The problem is not that I haven’t made things crystal clear. The problem is that you refuse to hear the truth. Just like any typical liberal.


476 posted on 04/21/2016 8:42:24 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: VanDeKoik

Ted Cruz said it’s a 10th Amendment use that he’s opposed to as a Texan.


477 posted on 04/21/2016 8:42:58 AM PDT by JSDude1
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To: Trumpinator

He is hardly pretending. He is stating the case that the courts should NOT be deciding issues like that.

Remember, Cruz is a constitutionalist, since its not defined within the constitution, it technically IS a states rights issue.

That does not make him pro-choice or not pro-life, it means he is consistent in what he is saying.

Trump of course, is NOT a constitutionalist, and is a populist. He blows whichever way the wind blows.

In the case of transgender folks using the same restroom as people of the opposite sex, he blows the direction of the liberal mind, because he is a liberal.


478 posted on 04/21/2016 8:43:16 AM PDT by plewis1250 (The pecking order: Christian, American, Conservative)
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To: CA Conservative

You’re way late on b). already loaded with a bunch of excuse makers.


479 posted on 04/21/2016 8:43:16 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Luircin

In which case, I anxiously await his total retraction and walking back of this comment.


480 posted on 04/21/2016 8:43:19 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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