Trump Downplays Trans Bathroom Debate After Spending Millions On Anti-Trans Ads
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“It's a very small number of people we're talking about,” the president-elect said in an interview with Time.
WASHINGTON – In a stunning change of tune, President-elect Donald Trump told Time in an interview published Thursday that the transgender bathroom debate isn’t that important and doesn’t affect many people anyway – despite his campaign and other GOP groups pouring tens of millions of dollars into political ads attacking transgender people.
“I don’t want to get into the bathroom issue,” Trump said in the interview, which took place in late November. “Because it’s a very small number of people we’re talking about.”
He suggested the Supreme Court should ultimately decide whether transgender people can use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, but reiterated that this debate — which was created entirely by Republicans — is not a priority.
“We’re talking about a very small number of people, and we’re talking about it, and it gets massive coverage, and it’s not a lot of people,” Trump said.
Roughly 1.6 million people ages 13 and older identify as transgender in the United States, according to The Williams Institute, an LGBTQ+ research center.
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