Posted on 04/21/2016 7:13:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
On Thursday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump took the liberal stance on transgender restroom access. Media outlets can call it "moderate" all they want, but it is inescapable that Trump defended biological men using women's restrooms. The Donald is not exactly hesitant to offend people, and transgressing political correctness has been one of the centerpieces of his campaign. He even declared in the past that he would protect Christians and social conservatives, but this acceptance of "transgender rights" may be a sign that he has started pandering to the "center" for the general election.
Conservatives have long warned that Trump is unpredictable, that he would make a horrible Republican standard bearer because he does not represent the classical issues of that party. Now it seems The Donald might be proving them right -- after most of the socially conservative voters in the South already backed the real estate tycoon.
Trump attacked the North Carolina law which reserved multiple-person restrooms in schools and government facilities to only those people of the appropriate biological sex. This law was intended to protect the privacy of girls and boys, men and women, but many companies attacked it as discriminatory. Rather than defending the law -- as those who find The Donald a champion of conservative or politically incorrect values might expect -- Trump trashed it.
"North Carolina did something that was very strong and they're paying a big price and there's a lot of problems," said Trump, who would have left things as they were. "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."
This stance sounds moderate -- Trump is arguing that there should be no restrictions -- but in reality, it is a complete surrender to a small, vocal minority. If public restrooms must be one way or the other, why side with the infinitesimal minority of people who identify with the sex opposite the one they were born with, rather than the millions of men and women who are comfortable with their birth sex?
Why can we not have more single-serve, unisex restrooms, to avoid the issue entirely? Trump attacked the idea of separate transgender restrooms as a waste of money -- he's right -- but he did not address this solution, which many restaurants have already adopted.
In matter of fact, Trump is incorrect that there has been "so little trouble." Women who claim to have been abused as children are now vehemently opposing the opening of girls' and women's restrooms to biological men. When the New York Times attacked Americans concerned about this issue as effectively insane, controlled by "transgender bathroom hysteria," these disenfranchised people took to Twitter to express their outrage. Regardless of what Trump or the New York Times says, many Americans are concerned about this, and it's not just because of "transphobia."
Nevertheless, The Donald was quite explicit in his support for transgender access. He said that if Caitlyn Jenner (born Bruce Jenner) walked into Trump Tower, The Donald would let her use the restroom of her choice.
If @Caitlyn_Jenner walked into Trump Tower, what bathroom would @RealDonaldTrump suggest she use? #TrumpTODAY https://t.co/E6jLyif6ls
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 21, 2016
The Federalist's Ben Domenech once explained why social conservatives in the South might back Donald Trump. Domenech said these voters "have no illusions about [Trump's] unbelief. The difference is that while they believe Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio would be one more round of good soldiers for their cause, they think Donald Trump would be a tank."
But when it comes to actually fighting for conservative values, Trump ends up on the other side. Indeed, in a classic battle involving political correctness, he falls neatly in line. The Donald might not be a tank, but rather a Trojan horse.
Trump does not give a flip one way or the other. He’s just listing to the left.
Transgender people already can use the restroom of the sex they appear to be. No one would know the difference.
You support transexual preferences over the rights of all others. That makes you a transexual activist. What is confusing you about that?
In Donald’s (ahem) amended statement, he said it was a matter for the states.
Don’t worry about North Carolina.
I know you don’t. There were be more backlash to the backlash than the original backlash.
“Do you smile when you eat the crap Sandwich?”
That is the type of juvenile response I would expect from a Cruz supporter. You have not disappointed me.
Talk about benefits.
Wow.
Giving Trump the benefit of the doubt.
Trump needs to shut up for a day or two.
Problem: He can’t.
He’s neither conservative nor mentally stable.
Aw shucks.
Forcing little girls to welcome grown male strangers into the bathroom sure does make you the intellectual, doesn’t it.
Half of FR has become more Leftist than DU and you think the Cruzers are the damned fools.
Enjoy your new LGBT friendly, progressive candidate.
That is one of the most ignorant posts of the day.
Did your head hurt the Wall yet?
Why are you so worried then?
You know that Trump has almost no chance of getting enough votes to win on the first ballot.
You know that Ted Cruz will probably win on the 2nd.
You can sing yourself to sleep saying Ted Cruz is history and it won’t make Ted Cruz history.
If your meaning my support for Trump, yes I am very comfortable with it...
What has Cruz done for other people, did he loan his jet to fly a sick child to a hospital because the airlines couldn’t do it?
Did he bail out a Marine that was sitting in a jail cell in Mexico waiting for our pResident to help him out? No, Trump did that and then had the Marine spend a night in Trump Towers free, and gave him $25,000.00 to start his life over...all because the Marine took the wrong turn and entered Mexico...
Did you see Cruz at ‘Ground Zero’ after 9/11 helping anyway he could? No but Trump was there and so were a lot of the people that worked for him, helping sift through the burning ashes trying to find body parts...
Did Cruz pay off a mortage for an older couple that couldn’t make the payment, the farm had been in the family for generations, so when he found out about it, after the man had killed himself, Trump paid off the mortage and we got to hear about it from one of Trump’s rallies from the granddaughter...
Where was Cruz when Gov. Christie was trying to get FEMA help for the State of New Jersey trying to get back on it feet after the storm ‘Sandy’ went through...No Cruz wouldn’t give a yeah vote on helping New Jersey, and where is Cruz now with all the flooding in Texas, or does he even care?
When you can tell us Trump supporters that Cruz has done one tenth of what Trump has done for people, get back to us, until then STFU!!!
Yes, a lot of LGBTLMNOP people feel I’m ignorant. I just can’t accept that they have more rights than everyone else.
I hope you find your safe space.
Trigger warning, I may post more.
I truthfully have no clue what you are even talking about. The only thing I support is not passing more laws for things that are NON-ISSUES. We live in an area that has a higher percentage of freaks than almost anywhere else in the country; yet in nearly 60 years neither my wife or I has ever noticed a “transsexual” in a public restroom. We have also never heard any of our friends complaining about having a problem either.
You are making hay a big deal over absolutely nothing. Have you ever seen a “transsexual” in a public restroom? We have 10 to 30 million illegal immigrants in the country and the government claims that we don't have the resources to do anything about it. You are obviously advocating for continuing to allow illegal immigrant murders, rapists, and drug dealers remain in the country so that precious resources can be used rooting out a problem that doesn't exist. You are an illegal immigrant rapist advocate.
I don’t need or want a sugar daddy. That crap is for Progressives.
I want a defender of the Constitution. Cruz has done 1000 times more in that respect that Trump.
Now you STFU!
Looks like YOU’VE been pulled out of a dark, dank closet, somewhere. So, there’s that.
“Trigger warning, I may post more.”
As if I really gave a damn if you post or not.
Ahem.
Trump was no closer to ground zero than Cruz was.
No more active anyway.
Where do you dig these fantasies up?
I know. God help our Country.
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