WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sided on Thursday with those criticizing a controversial new North Carolina law requiring transgender people to use government and school bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate.
Trump said the law was unnecessary and people should be allowed to use whichever bathroom feels appropriate.
"Leave it the way it is," he said during a town hall on NBC's Today show. "There have been very few complaints the way it is," added Trump, who is front-runner to be the Republican presidential nominee in November's election.
National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver also on Thursday made his strongest statements yet suggesting that the league's 2017 All-Star Game would be moved out of the state if the law is not changed, the Washington Post reported.