Trump Vows To Rescind Obama’s Pro-Trans Directives

The Washington Post reports:

Donald Trump vowed Monday that if elected president he would rescind the Obama administration’s new directives aimed at protecting transgender people against discrimination in schools and health-care coverage.

But even as Trump accused the administration of federal overreach and argued that such matters should be addressed by the states, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee also sounded a more compassionate tone and offered a more nuanced outlook than many of his party’s elected leaders.

Trump said in an interview with The Washington Post that the government must act “to protect all people” and that he was eager to learn more about the movement for transgender rights.

“It is a very, very small portion of the population, but as I said, you have to protect everybody, including small portions of the population,” Trump said during the interview in his 26th-floor office at Trump Tower here in Manhattan.

Trump has previously declared that transgender rights should be a “state issue.” However, he did criticize North Carolina’s hate law, saying it “went too far.”