Trump, Cruz turn transgender bathroom law into campaign issue

Donald Trump.
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On Thursday, Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz shared their opposing views on the North Carolina law that requires transgender individuals to use bathrooms in schools and government buildings that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate.

On the Today show, Trump criticized the law, calling it "unnecessary," and said the state is now "paying a big price" due to boycotts. Cruz is supportive of the law, and tweeted that Trump "isn't going to defeat political correctness," and instead "bowed to it." He later added, "We shouldn't be facilitating putting little girls alone in a bathroom with grown men. That's just a bad, bad, bad idea."

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.