Social Issues

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Donald Trump hates women. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

This evidence photo on display at a news conference on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at Los Angeles Police headquarters shows a fake gun that was found after the fatal shooting of a hispanic man on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The police chief disclosed details of Saturday's shooting of Carnell Snell, in South Los Angeles and a separate fatal police shooting of a Hispanic man Sunday amid heightened tensions over police shootings involving blacks and other minorities in California and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows James McKinney. The Supreme Court won't hear Arizona's appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned McKinney's death sentence and opened the door for other death row inmates in the state to challenge their sentences. On Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, the justices let stand the ruling that said Arizona unconstitutionally excluded evidence about McKinney's troubled childhood and post-traumatic stress disorder that might have led to a lesser punishment. McKinney was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1993. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP)

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FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Politicians love trying to use the tax code to highlight their goals to voters. This year, it’s a battlefield between Hillary Clinton, who wants to boost levies on the rich to pay for expanding social programs and Donald Trump, who says cutting taxes would gird the economy. The clash has consequences for the rich, poor and those in the middle. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Field office: Patrick Hanley retired on disability after being wounded in Iraq, only to face co-worker discrimination when he entered the federal workforce.

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Illustration on the benefits of commercial space exploration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In a Sept. 9, 2016 photo, Grand Rapids, Ohio resident Heather Gorham kisses her daughter Hannah Gorham, 9, before she learns to play guitar with music therapist David Putano at the the ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital Toledo,Ohio. In ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital since Aug. 31 for severe migraines, Hannah was introduced recently to music therapy, a growing practice for hospitalized children and those with developmental or physical disabilities. (Lori King/The Blade via AP)

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Los Angeles Police officers stop their patrol vehicle to speak to neighbors and members of the community gathered around a makeshift memorial outside a residence on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. Officers shot and killed Carnell Snell Jr. in south Los Angeles on Saturday at the end of a car chase, sparking a protest by several dozen people angered by another fatal police shooting of a black man. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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In this Sept. 7, 2016, photo, Jenn Brewer, 13, poses for a portrait after her monthly doctors appointment for monitoring of her treatment at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Va. Brewer is transitioning from male to female. A new Pentagon policy brings some relief to transgender military retirees and children of active-duty service members. Starting Oct. 3, the military’s health insurance will cover transgender-related services that include hormone therapy and supportive counseling. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, several of the piers for the new U.S. 52/IL 64 bridge project are complete over the Mississippi River from Sabula, Iowa to Savanna, Illinois. The current bridge, built in 1932 over the Mississippi River, is "in need of a full replacement according to the Illinois Department of Transportation. At 20 feet wide, it is too narrow to meet current safety standards, and does not accommodate disabled vehicles or bicycle traffic. (Kevin Schmidt Newsroom /Quad City Times via AP)

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Brian F. Egolf Minority Floor Leader, D-Santa Fe and Nate Gentry Majority Floor Leader, R- Bernalillo (from right) have a private discussion in the basement hallway outside the door of the New Mexico House of Representatives during the second day of the New Mexico Special Legislative Session Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. /Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, Phil Daw Sr., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, helps cook beef stew to feed hundreds at an encampment near North Dakota's Standing Rock Sioux reservation. The sprawling encampment that’s a protest against the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has most everything it needs to be self-sustaining _ except a federal permit to be there. The camp near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers in North Dakota is on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

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FILE – In this June 26, 2015, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, front right, and Ohio Senate President Keith Faber, front left, both Republicans, discuss the state budget with reporters, as other officials watch at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Senate President Keith Faber is a lead sponsor of a bill passed by the state Senate on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, that would create a review process for at least 25 state agencies under the governor’s authority, allowing lawmakers to more easily eliminate agencies. (AP Photo/Kantele Franko, File)

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A migrant girl walks behind a barbed wire fence at a makeshift camp in Horgos, Serbia, seen from the Hungarian side of the border, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Hungarians will vote Sunday in a referendum which Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes will give his government the popular support it seeks to oppose any future plans by the European Union to resettle asylum seekers among its member states.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A woman holds a banner during a protest against Orban's policies regarding migrants in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Hungarians will vote Sunday in a referendum which Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes will give his government the popular support it seeks to oppose any future plans by the European Union to resettle asylum seekers among its member states. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Otto Voit, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania state treasurer, talks to a reporter and the editorial board of the Reading Eagle newspaper on Sept. 21, 2016, in Reading, Pa. In the Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, general election, Pennsylvania voters will choose between Republican Otto Voit and Democrat Joe Torsella to serve a four-year term as state treasurer, an official who oversees the state Treasury Department, sits on boards of Pennsylvania’s two large public employee pension agencies and has a say in the state’s bond issues. (Bill Uhrich/Reading Eagle via AP)

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FILE - This June 27, 2011 file photo shows Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who drew criticism for sentencing former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved two bills that emerged after a former Stanford University swimmer was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a woman passed out near a trash bin. The Democratic governor said Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, that he signed one bill requiring state prison time for someone convicted of assaulting an unconscious victim instead of a shorter jail sentence like the one Brock Turner received. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder via AP, File) /The Recorder via AP)