Donald Trump on Monday told the Washington Post that he would reverse the Obama administration’s new guidelines for schools on how to accommodate transgender students, but the presumptive Republican presidential nominee also expressed willingness to protect transgender individuals.
“It is a very, very small portion of the population, but as I said, you have to protect everybody, including small portions of the population,” Trump told the Post.
When first asked about the controversial North Carolina law that keeps transgender people from using the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity, Trump said that the law was unnecessary and suggested that people “use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate.” But when pressed on the issue later that day, Trump said that it should be up to states.
Trump walked this same line in his Monday interview with the Washington Post, even though he said that the letter from the Justice and Education departments amounted to executive overreach.
He told the Post that “you’ve got to protect all people, even though it’s a tiny percentage of 1 percent.”
“I think from that standpoint, [states] should come up with a policy that’s going to work for everybody and protect people,” Trump said.
The Republican presidential candidate does not “view it as civil rights or not civil rights,” when asked about President Obama’s view that protecting transgender people from discrimination is a civil rights issue.
“I think it’s something where we have to help people — and hopefully the states will make the right decisions,” Trump said.
Trump’s tone while discussing transgender access to public facilities is markedly different from that of other Republicans.
The Friday letter from the Obama administration prompted swift outrage from conservatives who charged that the President had overstepped his authority. Governors and attorneys general balked at the guidelines, with some hinting at legal action.
Since PBO I for it, Trump is against. The end.
Since Caitlin Jenner is a Republican, maybe she should be his “ambassador”?
No. Just no. He said none of those things.
To the extent you’re intent on huffing the sacred fumes, staring intently into whatever pile of chicken guts Trump spews up at any given time and then divining therein some message from Trumplympus, it was that he would turn it back over to the states and hope they do the right thing, even though the reason for federal action is that they don’t. To the extent he said anything, and I’m not claiming he did, it was that and no more.
Which, by the most amazing coincidence, is remarkably similar to his pronouncements on the minimum wage: turn it over to the states and hope they do the right thing even though the reason we have federal minimum wage laws is that most of them don’t.
Jenner supports Cruz, remember. Of course, the fact that she’s willing to throw the rest of her trans siblings under the bus is rather pathetic.
Of course, Trump would love to get rid of Brown v. Board of Education if he had a choice.
I wonder how that would work in practice. If you travel, would they include the bathroom requirements on maps?
North Dakota requires a birth certificate and blood sample for DNA testing before you can stop at the rest stop. If the light is green, stop for your DNA test. If the light is red, you may not stop and use the bathroom at all. NYC allows you to use whichever bathroom is appropriate for the gender of which you identify, but be careful about going too far North of White Plains because then you have to provide a birth certificate…