The New York Times published a long article this morning, “Democrats Lost Voters on Transgender Rights. Winning Them Back Won’t Be Easy.”
The Democrat Party is struggling
“with identity politics as it dissects its losses in 2024. Recovering its standing with voters, many in the party believe, requires coming to terms with the party’s transformation during the Obama and first Trump presidencies, when American liberals broadly embraced what had previously been vanguard positions on a range of social and cultural issues, including gender and race, immigration and policing.”
Shorter version? They swung hard left under Obama and now they’re screwed. Especially as it concerns transgender politics. It’s nice of them to confirm it, finally.
“Support for restrictions [on men playing in women’s sports] is growing among Democrats… A Pew Research survey in February found that 45% of Democratic or Democratic-leaning adults favored laws requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching their sex assigned at birth, up from 37% just three years earlier. Democratic support for restrictions on medical care for transitioning minors and on bathroom use for transgender people has grown similarly.”
And they’re not exactly models in courage.
“Democratic politicians still diverge from the party on the issue at their peril. In May, The Dispatch asked Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona about his views on transgender athletes’ participation in sports. ‘As a parent of a daughter, I think it’s legitimate that parents are worried about the safety of their daughters, and I think it’s legitimate for us to be worried also about fair competition,” he said, adding, “I think the parents of these trans children also are worried, legitimately, about the health and wellness of their kids.’
The statement earned him rapid condemnation from a raft of L.G.B.T.Q. groups in Arizona that had previously endorsed him. Mr. Gallego has not spoken publicly about the subject since. Like most Democratic politicians contacted for this story, he declined to comment.”
Yeah, well, suffer. You people got yourselves into this mess. Good luck getting out.