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The determination of Democrats to sacrifice athletic opportunities for girls and women on the altar of transgender ideology was a contributing factor in the party’s 2024 campaign losses. For a brief period after that year’s elections there seemed to be a willingness to reconsider whether the party should continue to deny biological reality. But events this week confirm that Democrats will continue waging this culture war. Don’t be surprised if it costs them again at the polls. Back in the heady days of November 2024, a few politicians on the left finally seemed able to speak freely against Democratic dogma. Rep. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) told the New York Times, “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” But despite his willingness to speak the truth in 2024, by the following year Rep. Moulton was voting against a bill to protect female sports and justifying his vote by alleging harms that could be found nowhere in the text of the legislation. Now
it seems that he’s not even willing to make the rhetorical case. Tim Dunn reports for the Boston Herald on this week’s primary debate for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts between Rep. Moulton and incumbent Sen. Ed Markey: “Let me be clear to anyone out there listening tonight, anyone in the LGBTQ community or anyone else: I stand with you because I’ve always stood with you. And I have seen the pain that you are going through because of this hateful Trump administration,” Moulton said when pressed on what his stance is on the trans issue. “This is a crisis and I’m very proud of the
fact that I have a 100% voting record from the Human Rights Campaign. I have your back because I’ve always had your back, and I will have them in the future.” Given that it’s Massachusetts, whoever wins the Democratic primary will be a heavy favorite in the fall. But keep an eye on the open U.S. Senate seat Democrats are defending next door in New Hampshire. Likely Democratic nominee Rep. Chris Pappas has been a consistent opponent of protecting female sports and in November he will probably face Republican former Sen. John Sununu, who makes the reasonable case that girls’ sports should be for girls. Mr. Pappas is expected to win, but recent polls suggest a tight race.
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