{"id":14254,"date":"2016-04-24T22:12:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2016-04-24T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:52:14","slug":"transgender-bathrooms-become-a-potus-campaign-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14254","title":{"rendered":"Transgender bathrooms become a POTUS campaign issue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What in the name of bathroom breaks has happened to the presidential campaign?<\/p>\n

Let’s see: Donald J. Trump said something about it being OK with him if a transgender individual wants to use a bathroom that makes him\/her comfortable.<\/p>\n

Then we hear from fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who starts peppering Trump with criticism over his statement.<\/p>\n

Holy mackerel, man!<\/p>\n

First of all, I am not dialed in to this transgender issue. If I were king of the world — which Trump seems to aspire to become — I wouldn’t waste a moment of time worrying about this\u00a0issue.<\/p>\n

Transgenderism isn’t on my radar. I guess if I had to make an argument for it one way or the other, I’d oppose allowing transgender individuals to use whatever rest room they wish.<\/p>\n

People are born with certain physical attributes that make them either male or female. I guess physiology rules out over emotional psyche.<\/p>\n

OK. That said, why are presidential candidates even talking about this issue?<\/p>\n

It won’t matter one bit to any president. This is a state issue exclusively. If there’s a law to be enacted, it will be done by state legislatures and signed into law — or vetoed — by governors.<\/p>\n

The LGBT community seems to want to make an issue of it. While I oppose laws aimed at discriminating against Americans based on their sexual orientation, this transgender bathroom issue that has blown up in some states takes this tempest a step too far.<\/p>\n

And for the life of me, I don’t understand why presidential<\/em> candidates are talking about it now.<\/p>\n

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What in the name of bathroom breaks has happened to the presidential campaign? Let’s see: Donald J. Trump said something about it being OK with him if a transgender individual wants to use a bathroom that makes him\/her comfortable. Then we hear from fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, who starts peppering Trump with criticism … Continue reading Transgender bathrooms become a POTUS campaign issue?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2772,4537,6170],"class_list":["post-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-lgbt","tag-ted-cruz","tag-transgender-bathrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14260,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/14260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}