Here in Pennsylvania, the battle over transgender rights has been brewing for years. “I also think that the laws that have been passed there are wrong and should be overturned.”ĭemocratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have forcefully condemned the laws, and Sanders said he would overturn them if elected president. “I want everybody here in the United Kingdom to know that the people of North Carolina and Mississippi are wonderful people,” said Obama, who also took a question from a person who claims no gender. President Obama weighed in on the issue Friday from Britain, which issued a travel advisory warning residents about the North Carolina law and another enacted in Mississippi that allows businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples on religious grounds. He called Trump’s views on transgender people “political correctness on steroids.” “As the father of two young girls, I can tell you it doesn’t make any sense to allow adult grown men strangers to be alone in a bathroom with little girls,” Cruz said at a rally here, drawing loud applause from the crowd. There has been some backlash: A woman holding a “Trans lives matter” sign protested outside of a stop Cruz made in Allentown, Pa., on Friday.ĭon Uber of Apollo, Pa., says he fears that allowing transgender women into ladies’ rooms could put girls using the restrooms at risk. His campaign released an ad accusing Trump of capitulating to the “PC police” and asking viewers whether a grown man pretending to be a woman should use a restroom with your daughter or wife.Ĭruz has woven his support of North Carolina’s law into his stump speech. “In terms of it being new territory, the answer is yes.”Ĭruz’s argument centers on the idea that allowing transgender women to use women’s restrooms would lead to deviants dressing up as women and preying on young girls. “There’s been a significant amount of conversation about it on the presidential level,” said Cathryn Oakley, senior legislative counsel at the Human Rights Campaign, who said 50 anti-transgender bills have been filed nationwide this year. John Kasich said he probably wouldn’t have signed the North Carolina law, while both Democratic candidates have condemned it.
Trump also said he would let transgender reality-television star Caitlyn Jenner use the women’s restroom at his properties. Trump said there has been “little trouble” with allowing people to use the restroom they want, though he later said that states should have the power to enact their own laws. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)Ĭruz has seized on Trump’s assertion that the North Carolina law, which also rolled back other protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people, was unnecessary and bad for business - corporations including PayPal and Deutsche Bank scrapped plans to create jobs in the state after the legislation was enacted. Allowing transgender people to use the restrooms of their choice has split Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, and even drawn attention from President Obama in recent days.
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