Trump: Rescind Obama’s transgender directives, but ‘protect everybody’

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Via WashPo

NEW YORK — Donald Trump vowed Monday that if elected president he would rescind the Obama administration's new directives aimed at protecting transgender people against discrimination in schools and health-care coverage.

Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post that the government must act "to protect all people" and that he was eager to learn more about the movement for transgender rights.

"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 said during the interview in his 26th-floor office at Trump Tower here in Manhattan. 

On Friday, the Obama administration both directed public schools nationwide to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice and prohibited health insurance providers from denying coverage and services based on gender identity to transgender Americans.

But Trump, in a lengthy discussion on the issue Monday, spoke in a markedly different manner. He repeatedly said transgender people should be protected under the law and said he believed most states would "make the right decisions."

Asked whether he thought the issue had been overblown, Trump said: "I don't think so, because 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."

Obama sees transgender rights as a modern civil rights issue, but Trump offered a different characterization: "I think it's a people thing."

 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

There goes his pro-LGBT stance. Apparently he wants to appease conservatives while trying to keep liberals at arms reach. How duplicitous. There's no way he can get it both ways. He's playing for both sides, trying to allude to compromise on an issue that should not be compromised on while trying to play the moderate card, especially when anti-trans vitriol is at an all time high. This isn't a people thing. This is a civil rights issue. Civil rights should never be left up to the states. Any gay person who says otherwise is a hypocrite.

[JustinTrudeau 2,419]

I'm so confused. He apparent wants to protect the trans, but how he do so if he rescind the directives that will achieve that goal? 

What is this? 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

3 minutes ago, ZarinStar said:

I'm so confused. He apparent wants to protect the trans, but how he do so if he rescind the directives that will achieve that goal? 

What is this? 

He's saying he wants to rescind the directives and try to work a solution that will make everyone happy.

It sounds fine, but what he wants is for a minority of the USA to give up their rights and dignity to appease the "majority", because nothing will make them happy short of having the "gay agenda' disappear altogether.

[Morphine Prince 109,670]

1 minute ago, ZarinStar said:

I'm so confused. He apparent wants to protect the trans, but how he do so if he rescind the directives that will achieve that goal? 

What is this? 

He doesn't want to do anything. He doesn't care about people. All he wants is to win for the sake of winning to feed his narcissistic personality. 

He is not a politician. He is a fraud. He is the biggest joke in American politics. 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 minute ago, Morphine Prince said:

He doesn't want to do anything. He doesn't care about people. All he wants is to win for the sake of winning to feed his narcissistic personality. 

He is not a politician. He is a fraud. He is the biggest joke in American politics. 

You have seen the light 

I mean I knew you disliked him but you're going all out recently 

[Morphine Prince 109,670]

1 minute ago, LebaneseDude said:

You have seen the light 

I mean I knew you disliked him but you're going all out recently 

I'm in general election mode 

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

I'm in general election mode 

King  

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Between him and the radical Bernie supporters going crazy at the Nevada state Democratic convention, perhaps illustrating how this summer is gonna play out, I'm not so sure we'll make it through the year. This country and the people in it are losing it and in utter chaos. 

 

And we thought the Republican Convention was the one to worry over. I'm pretty sure both are gonna be in chaos. 

[Goosey 3,017]

51 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post that the government must act "to protect all people" and that he was eager to learn more about the movement for transgender rights.

"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 said during the interview in his 26th-floor office at Trump Tower here in Manhattan.

 

51 minutes ago, LebaneseDude said:

Trump, in a lengthy discussion on the issue Monday, spoke in a markedly different manner. He repeatedly said transgender people should be protected under the law and said he believed most states would "make the right decisions."

Asked whether he thought the issue had been overblown, Trump said: "I don't think so, because 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."

 

What a great man!