Trump Says Transgender Bathroom Issue Less Important Than Others

‘I don’t want to get into the bathroom issue,’ the president-elect said. ‘Because it’s a very small number of people we’re talking about.’

President-elect Donald Trump walks onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with his wife Melania after being named TIME’s “Person of the Year” for the second time, in New York on Dec. 12, 2024. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

President-elect Donald Trump stated that there were more important issues than the transgender bathroom debate when he was asked about the topic in a Time magazine interview published Thursday.

Trump was named by the magazine as its 2024 “Person of the Year” and gave an interview that touched on a range of subjects, including whether people who identify as transgender should be able to use bathrooms that don’t match their biological sex.