North Carolina State’s Bathroom Policy: Donald Trump Says Caitlyn Jenner Can Use Whatever Restroom She Wants
Many states’ bathroom policies have come under fire lately after North Carolina passed a bill limiting transgender people from using restrooms corresponding to the gender they choose. As a result of this new law, many celebrities, including Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, and Ringo Starr of the Beetles, have taken to boycotting the state.
Even Michael Moore took to Twitter to publicly announce that his newest film, Where to Invade Next, will not be showing in North Carolina. Of course, one user responded by saying that the state will benefit the most from his decision.
Other states almost felt the blow, such as Georgia. When it was revealed that the state was close to signing the bill into law, the cast and crew of the Georgia-filmed AMC series The Walking Dead threatened to film elsewhere. Even long-gone cast member Laurie Holden breathed a public sigh of relief when the bill was thrown out.
Now the North Carolina state bathroom policies have gone political, with Ted Cruz and Donald Trump at each other’s proverbial throats over the issue. Cruz has come out strongly in favor of the new law.
“Donald agreed with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in attacking the state of North Carolina for passing their bathroom ordinance. And Donald, on television this morning, said, gosh, he thought that men should be able to go into the girls’ bathroom if they want to. Now let me ask you, have we gone stark raving nuts? This is the political correctness. I’m the father of two little girls. Here is basic common sense: Grown adult men, strangers, should not be alone in a bathroom with little girls.”
.@tedcruz: “Let me ask you – have we gone stark raving nuts?” #SpecialReporthttps://t.co/9Xw1wItzst
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2016
Cruz may have twisted Trump’s words as he attacked his Republican rival’s stance on the state’s bathroom policies. Donald Trump was most likely using the wrong words, something he’s been known for (7-Eleven, anyone?) and was simply defending LGBTQ rights.
The issue mostly depends on the individual’s perspective. Many Republicans believe that transgender people should live by the gender they were born with, and the deviation from the idea is a crime against God’s plan. Celebrity transgender hero Caitlyn Jenner was used as an example by Donald Trump, and his response was that if she walked into Trump Tower, she could use whatever restroom she wants.
Trump told the Today show, “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.”
North Carolina state’s bathroom policies and Donald Trump’s stance against them may win him some liberal support even though he’s been known to insult people with generalizations, if only by accident. Mexicans, women, and the black community have all had a taste of his potentially poorly-chosen words as he pushed for the presidential nomination.
Ted Cruz added a somewhat amusing attack on Trump’s slogan in his fight to support states’ bathroom policies.
“But you know a few months ago Donald told us he could be the most politically correct person on earth. And I guess he’s showing us what that looks like. I am waiting with anticipation for the new baseball caps, ‘Make PC great again.'”
This is ironic considering that Trump had stood with Dr. Ben Carson in the stance that political correctness is really going too far now. These are the last few months before the November elections when we finally decide who succeeds Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
Could Donald Trump’s opposition to North Carolina’s state bathroom policies cost him the Republican vote as Ted Cruz moves in for the nomination?
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