trump supports 1st trans congress member about bathrooms    -politics-and-policy/trump-downplay s-transgender-bathroom-debate-issue -rips-congress-rcna184031 president-elect donald trump said thursday that he agrees with incoming rep. sarah mcbride  who is set to become the first transgender member of congress  that lawmakers should focus on more important issues than which bathrooms transgender people should be allowed to use. in a wide-ranging interview with time magazine, which just named trump its person of the year, the president-elect was asked if he agreed with mcbride that, as time phrased it, we should all be focused on more important issues than which bathrooms trans people use. trump replied: i do agree with that. on that  absolutely. i dont want to get into the bathroom issue, trump told time. because its a very small number of people were talking about, and its ripped apart our country, so theyll have to settle whatever the law finally agrees. he continued, i am a big believer in the supreme court, and im going to go by their rulings, and so far, i think their rulings have been rulings that people are going along with, but were talking about a very small number of people, and were talking about it, and it gets massive coverage, and its not a lot of people. time also asked trump about his campaign ads that focused on transgender people. in one, the campaign mocked vice president kamala harris past support for taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgery for inmates. the ad ended with the tagline: kamala is for they/them; president trump is for you. well, its true, trump told time. trump is for us. when pressed further, he said: i mean, trump is definitely for us, ok? and us is the vast, vast majority of people in this country. and also, i want to have all people treated fairly. you know, forget about majority or not majority. i want people to be treated well and fairly.
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