Donald Trump Downplays Transgender Issues: 'Very Small Number of People'
Donald Trump said transgender issues only affect a "very small number of people."Trump was named TIME Magazine's 2024 Person of the Year on Thursday.
In his interview with the magazine, he said "the bathroom issue" only pertains to a small amount of people and it's tearing the country apart.
He also advocated for people to go "along with" the Supreme Court's rulings."I don't want to get into the bathroom issue. Because it's a very small number of people we're talking about, and it's ripped apart our country, so they'll have to settle whatever the law finally agrees," Trump said after being asked about whether "transgender people could use whatever bathroom they chose."In a study published by Statista in July, the organization found that around 7.6 percent of adults in the United States identified as a part of the LGBTQ+ community in 2023, which is more than double the numbers in 2012.
The study found that as of 2021, around 97.4 percent of people assigned female at birth still identified as such.2022 survey data from Gallup, the Williams Institute and Pew Research suggests that between .5 and 1.6 percent of adults in the United States identify as transgender or nonbinary.However, YouGov showed that the public believes that as many as one in five people is transgender.During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump ran an advertisement focusing on transgender rights, famously saying "Kamala is for They/Them" and that "Donald Trump is for Us.""Kamala even supports letting biological men compete against our girls in their sports," the ad read. "Kamala is for they, them.
