Donald Trump’s Incoherent Position On Transgender Protections

As the Republican Party struggles to embrace Donald Trump as its presidential nominee, it seems Donald Trump is also struggling to cater to what Republican leadership wants to hear from him. His latest response about the Obama administration’s guidance on respecting transgender students and patients suggests an incoherent desire to toe the Republican Party line while also staying true to his own seemingly more inclusive beliefs — to the extent those beliefs are even discernible.

In an interview with the Washington Post Monday, Trump said that if elected president, he would rescind these directives protecting transgender people. With Republicans leaders across the country overwhelmingly opposing the trans student protections in particular, this is no doubt what the Party wants to hear from their candidate.

But everything else Trump said in the interview sounded like he actually supports transgender people....
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2016/05/17/3778859/donald-trump-transgender/