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Donald Trump Says Transgender People Should Use the Bathroom They Want
New York Times ^ | 04/21/2016 | Ashley Parker

Posted on 04/21/2016 9:53:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.

Dipping into a contentious issue by taking a stand many Republicans oppose, Mr. Trump told a town-hall-style event, hosted by NBC’s “Today” show at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, that when people go to the restroom, they should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate.”

Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, was responding to a question about a bill that North Carolina’s governor signed into law last month that bars individuals in the state from using public bathrooms that don’t correspond to their biological sex — the one listed on their birth certificate. Since then, there has been a backlash from businesses and celebrities opposed to the state’s action. And transgender issues have pitted social conservatives against business interests that traditionally have been part of the Republican coalition in the South and elsewhere.

“North Carolina did something — it was very strong — and they’re paying a big price,” Mr. Trump said. “And there’s a lot of problems. And I heard — one of the best answers I heard was from a commentator yesterday saying, leave it the way it is, right now.”

He added that before the law passed, there had been “very few problems” but now North Carolina is experiencing an exodus of businesses and “strife” from people on both sides of the issue.

“You leave it the way it is,” he said. “There have been very few complaints the way it is.”

North Carolina’s law, which also removed anti-discrimination protections for L.G.B.T. people, and the backlash to it, is now at the heart of the state’s hotly contested governor’s race.

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To: dragnet2
Yes, it is big news and should be listed even more. This exposes T**** for who he is. An extreme social leftist who will wage war on conservatives.

He will betray you people all the time - on a daily basis. He is a Manhattan liberal with New York values.

For me, I'm not voting T**** in November and will do all I can to make sure he loses.

101 posted on 04/21/2016 10:43:59 AM PDT by Dave W
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To: Dave W

I’m about to wash my hands my hands of the whole matter on this earth. The Bible says that this day had to come, I think I’m seeing it on the horizon.


102 posted on 04/21/2016 10:44:28 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: The Right wing Infidel; SeekAndFind
Donald J. Trump said Thursday that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.

In company with nihilist occult pantheist globalists, America's left/right ruling class, and Planned Parenthood cannibalizers of baby parts, Trump is a relativist. His pragmatic acceptance of transgender (androgyny) beings places him in the company of ancient Chaldeans and modern Satanists, Luciferians, and Baphomet worshippers. Baphomet is the phallic god Pan, the ancient hermaphrodite god of nature, the divine substance (prima material) from which the universe and all life supposedly evolved.

Relativism is an anarchy of selfishness in accord with the apostate German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of nihilism concisely expressed as, "You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, it does not exist." Its animating spirit is "there is no fear of God before their eyes," (Rom. 3:18) and "they do not love the Truth." (2 Thes. 2:10)

Nietzsche exposed the satanic heart of this philosophy in the phrase, "God is dead, therefore man becomes god and everything is possible." (Nihilism, the Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Eugene Rose, p. 7)

Trump is acting the part of a god. His relativism however, is an unwitting pact with the Evil One---who always breaks his tools when he finishes with them.

103 posted on 04/21/2016 10:44:40 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: DesertRhino

Its different. Right now if I saw a Mexican tranny walk into the girls room behind an 11 year old daughter, I could beat the snot out of him. A cop could slam and cuff him.

This law means he has a right to be there.

And you are delusional if you think an 11 year old, or a 13 year old is under a parents supervision at every moment.
Or maybe not delusional, just not a parent.

==

Nope.

You’d be arrested, not the Tranny, unless he did something to the daughter.


104 posted on 04/21/2016 10:44:43 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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To: SeekAndFind

In the end people get the idea of transgender / transsexual confused. I always thought transgender is before surgery and transsexual was after, after surgery I have no problem with aligning bathroom use with new plumbing, but before hand it becomes dicey.


105 posted on 04/21/2016 10:45:16 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: The Right wing Infidel

Trump’s just Making America Great Again™
Gotta get rid of those bigots in the Conservative movement that trashed this country.


106 posted on 04/21/2016 10:45:48 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: QuigleyDU

I think what is feared is the actions that would follow if the man had malice on his mind. And “deliberate exposure” wouldn’t be any more legal in a setting like this than before. If he is a “girl” then there is no urinal there. There will be stalls. He should be eliminating behind closed doors. Wagging his member at other visiting patrons will be as illegal there as anywhere there is not consent.


107 posted on 04/21/2016 10:47:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: servantboy777
If you are a Christian, you’d recognize Islam as satanic, transgenderism and homosexuality are satanic deceptions. If a male muzzie engages in homosexuality by raping young boyz, he should be in prison...not our bathrooms.

Keep in mind we are talking about real laws about bathrooms. If trannies are in and of themselves abominations, and this is the driving force for why we find them uncomfortable in the bathrooms they've been going to-- so much so that it is now a major issue-- there's no reason to not apply this to Muslims too, and keep them out of the bathrooms regardless of any laws they've broken.

108 posted on 04/21/2016 10:47:21 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Dave W

This is why T**** is unqualified to be president. He is an intellectual idiot. In addition, he has the discipline and temperament of a five year old.

==

Simply told the truth, as unpleasant as it is, the law changed nothing.


109 posted on 04/21/2016 10:48:20 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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To: EinNYC
One minute he acts conservative

You have identified one of the major problems with Trump -- he doesn't have a core set of beliefs and surely is not a conservative. He is unpredictable and is just as likely to turn appoint socially liberal supreme court justices as Clinton. His entire shtick is an act.

110 posted on 04/21/2016 10:48:48 AM PDT by double_down
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I don’t want homosexuals using public facilities, but apparently I can’t get everything I want from government.

Glad Trump didn’t fall into this silly trap, we already have laws against all sorts of misbehavior.


111 posted on 04/21/2016 10:48:48 AM PDT by ChuteTheMall (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Dave W
OMG, Dave there are only 4 breaking news stories about this potty talk story. This is earth crushing block buster stuff.

You should quickly post another breaking news story Dave! Get the word out.

>

112 posted on 04/21/2016 10:49:46 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: QuigleyDU

Ah, you’re no fun. Calvinball gets nowhere when you’re watching.


113 posted on 04/21/2016 10:50:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When I went to college in the early 1970s, our bathrooms at the dorm were all co-ed. That was 45 years ago.

My answer is , “so what?”


114 posted on 04/21/2016 10:50:55 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: DesertRhino

I am curios what are the great Cruz transgressions that made you abandon Cruz?


115 posted on 04/21/2016 10:51:37 AM PDT by Laserman
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To: SeekAndFind
We are seeing the next step in the pervert's agenda. Told ya all this was coming when Kennedy found gay marriage in the US Constitution about a year ago. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN LEGALIZING PEDOHPHILIA.
116 posted on 04/21/2016 10:52:22 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
>>If trannies are in and of themselves abominations, and this is the driving force for why we find them uncomfortable in the bathrooms<<

Gender confused men are emotionally disturbed. It is a safety issue for our sisters, moms and wives.

I've seen may transgendered men. It looks freakin evil to me. Don't wanna be judgmental, but it just looks demonic.

117 posted on 04/21/2016 10:52:44 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: double_down

He already stated what he’s about. He’s a populist facilitator.

This happens to have proved highly acceptable to many conservatives because they know where the government stands and where “We The People” stand. And they know the latter is quite preferable to the former.

Trump has brought us a new political model. It’s up to us what we do with it.


118 posted on 04/21/2016 10:52:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Harpotoo; All

Thanks for you post, as you expressed what I have trouble writing down!
At my age I have seen a lot, too much, GOVERNMENT!
The question to All is: which GOVERNMENT agency would be placed in charge of Bathroom Pre-entry Gender Identification Inspection? Henceforth known as BPGII. Boys Purported to Girls 2.
Gives new meaning to the question “ How’s it hanging?”.


119 posted on 04/21/2016 10:53:36 AM PDT by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: SatinDoll
When I went to college in the early 1970s, our bathrooms at the dorm were all co-ed. That was 45 years ago.

Pretty simple shift can fix this. Have a standers restroom with open troughs. Have a second all gender room with floor to ceiling walls for visual and sound privacy. Biggest issue is cost to re-engineer all the public restrooms owned by we the people.

120 posted on 04/21/2016 10:54:08 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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