{"id":125966,"date":"2024-11-15T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125966"},"modified":"2024-11-15T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T20:02:04","slug":"democrats-are-at-odds-after-trump-hammered-them-on-trans-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125966","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are at odds after Trump hammered them on trans issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 After losing the White House and both houses of Congress, Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-harris-transgender-politics-61cff97a64fac581ffc5f762be4c57d3\">withering and often misleading GOP attacks<\/a><\/span> on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of second-guessing after President-elect <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> anchored his victory over Vice President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a><\/span> with <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-harris-economy-immigration-11db37c033328a7ef6af71fe0a104604\">sweeping promises<\/a><\/span> on the economy and immigration. But Democrats also will not soon forget the punchline in anti-transgender Trump ads that became ubiquitous by Election Day: \u201cKamala is for they\/them; President Trump is for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeek by week when that ad hit and stuck and we didn\u2019t respond, I think that was the beginning of the end,\u201d former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said of the 30-second spot that was part of $215 million in anti-transgender advertising by Trump and Republicans, according to tracking firm AdImpact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey painted her as something I don\u2019t think she is,\u201d Rendell said. \u201cThey painted her as a far-left liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fallout leaves some progressive and moderate Democrats struggling between the party\u2019s modern identity as a champion of civil rights and its electoral fortunes across swaths of America with whom those attacks resonated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are just a number of issues where we\u2019re out of touch,\u201d Rep. Seth Moulton, a moderate Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview, days after he set off recriminations within his party for saying he didn\u2019t want his daughters playing in sports against biological males. Critics said Moulton echoed Trump\u2019s talking points about liberals allowing \u201cmen to compete in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Republicans have a hateful position on trans issues,\u201d Moulton told The Associated Press, but insisted that Democrats still lose voters because of the party\u2019s \u201cattitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than talk down to you and tell you what to believe,\u201d he argued, Democrats should \u201clisten to hard-working Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LGBTQ+ advocates, meanwhile, are arguing that the 2024 election turned more on economic issues than Trump\u2019s transgender rhetoric. They\u2019re urging political leaders to counter misinformation that they say threatens the health and safety of transgender Americans, who make up less than 1% U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrans people have been existing and co-existing,\u201d receiving health care and participating in society for years, said Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group. \u201cNothing new happened,\u201d Ellis said, other than Republicans singling them out in a presidential campaign year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt didn\u2019t change one vote,\u201d Ellis argued. \u201cBut it did make the world way more dangerous for trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Democratic Massachusetts lawmaker, Rep. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ayanna-pressley\">Ayanna Pressley<\/a><\/span>, didn\u2019t name Moulton, but said some reactions to the election \u201cscapegoated and dehumanized\u201d transgender people. \u201cThis Congresswoman sees you and loves you,\u201d Pressley wrote on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it\u2019s difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint single issues that can tip a national election, and there are mixed findings on what voters think about transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p>According to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 people who cast ballots this fall, more than half of voters said support for transgender rights in government and society has gone too far. About 2 in 10 said support has not gone far enough and another 2 in 10 said it\u2019s about right. But among Trump voters, 85% said transgender support had gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>Still, slightly more than half of all voters oppose banning gender affirming medical treatment such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers, while slightly less than half support such proposals.<\/p>\n<p>About one-quarter of Harris voters said support for transgender rights in government and society has gone too far. About 4 in 10 said it\u2019s been about right and about 4 in 10 said it hasn\u2019t gone far enough.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Republicans were relentless in trying to capitalize on the issue. They piled on transgender athletes, with Trump <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-imane-khelif-li-yuting-57afb62e90968c06277118135e47e759\">falsely labeling<\/a><\/span> two Olympic boxers as transgender women. They used Harris\u2019 comments as a presidential candidate in 2019 \u2014 before she became vice president \u2014 effectively to blame her for laws granting transgender health care to federal prisoners and detainees. <\/p>\n<p>And Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed that \u201cyour kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation\u201d changing their sex. <\/p>\n<p>In reality, the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\">Biden administration<\/a><\/span> has held that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/title-ix\">Title IX<\/a><\/span> bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity \u2014 but <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/us-department-of-education\">Education Department<\/a><\/span> rules do not explicitly address transgender athletes. Federal law that Trump ads cited does require people in U.S. government custody to have access to gender-affirming medical treatments. Those policies were in place throughout Trump\u2019s 2017-21 term; they are not something Biden\u2019s administration instituted specifically. <\/p>\n<p>And it is not legal in any state for a school to determine and carry out surgical treatment for minor students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta fight back\u201d with those explanations, Moulton said, adding that the silence compounds the negative effects for transgender people. \u201cWhat did we show about our willingness to stand up for trans people by just being silent and ignoring the issue and ignoring the attack?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Moulton said Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill and in statehouses should give individual elected officials and voters the space to take more conservative positions, and he defended his own comments that he doesn\u2019t want his daughters competing in athletics against men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I\u2019m supposed to be afraid to say that,\u201d Moulton told The New York Times last week.<\/p>\n<p>Before he <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-democrats-election-180bb809a66c70097d916b6d235051a5\">resigned<\/a><\/span> his post as Texas Democratic chairman, Gilberto Hinojosa said supporting transgender rights doesn\u2019t necessarily have to include public funding for gender reassignment surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can say, \u2019OK, we respect people\u2019s right to say, we don\u2019t want my taxpayer money to be used for that,\u2019\u201d Hinojosa told Texas Public Radio. Hinojosa later apologized via social media, saying LGBTQ Americans \u201cdeserve to feel seen, valued and safe in our state and our party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ellis, the CEO of GLAAD, pointed to Delaware voters choosing to make state Sen. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sarah-mcbride\">Sarah McBride<\/a><\/span> the first transgender member of Congress as evidence that Americans \u201cdon\u2019t hate trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her part, McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, noted that she did not run on her identity \u2013 though it was not a secret \u2013 and instead talked to voters about \u201caffordable health care, housing and child care\u201d for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party that was focused on culture wars, the party that was focused on trans people was the Republican Party,\u201d McBride told reporters on Capitol Hill after her victory. \u201cIt was Donald Trump,\u201d she added, who \u201cwas trying to divide and distract from the fact that he has absolutely no policy solutions for the issues that are actually keeping voters up at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 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