"I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms, and we better start having a conversation about the classroom," Emanuel said at a recent lecture. "We can lead a discussion and force a topic onto the agenda of this country that's worthy of having a debate about. The New York Times put crumbs all the way to the front door of the USAID headquarters and we just walked along back there."
In an appearance on "Real Time With Bill Maher," Emanuel lamented the party's handling of transgender issues.
"In seventh grade, if I had known I could've said the word ‘they' and gotten in the girls' bathroom, I would've done it," he said. "We literally are a superpower, we're facing off against China with 1.4 billion people and two-thirds of our children can't read eighth grade level."