But he has been inconsistent in his views.

In April 2016 he said that transgender people should “use the bathroom they feel is appropriate,” but later said the issue should be “left up to the states.”

That angered Caitlyn Jenner, who is Mr Trump's highest-profile transgender backer.

In June 2016, at his first campaign rally since the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, he attempted to portray himself as a better friend of LGBTQ Americans than Hillary Clinton, in part because of his opposition to immigration from Middle Eastern countries.

“We want to live in a country where gay and lesbian Americans and all Americans are safe from radical Islam, which, by the way, wants to murder and has murdered gays and they enslave women,” he said.