Democrats Get Candid About Not Wanting to Talk Trans Rights

[Celerity]

Read the story. https://www.notus.org/2026-election/republicans-anti-trans-attacks-have-left-democrats-flat-footed

[JI7]

1. It's mostly 2 specific things. Transgender women in sports

and restrooms. The sports thing is bigger.

A lot of the other things are right wing exaggerations and lies.

[maxsolomon]

4. Transgender Women in Women's Sports

and puberty-blocking drugs for middle-schoolers with Gender Dysphoria. I think the bathroom issue is a distant 3rd now.

There are plenty of Dems that have qualms about both those issues, as overblown as they are. Apparently, in all of NCAA Sports this year, there were TEN transgender women, out of more than a half-million student-athletes.

[Trenzalore]

9. PA had two ads playing non stop

Vice President Harris with transition surgeries for prisoners and a group of high-school girls playing basketball against a very tall 20 something year old man in drag. BTW that was 30-40% of their ads so it worked.

[rollin74]

14. the ad with Harris talking about transition surgeries for prisoners

was played constantly for weeks here in Nevada as well

[BannonsLiver]

15. It definitely worked.

Torres is right, in my view. There’s not a lot of political upside sometimes in doing the right thing.

[JanMichael]

19. Same as in NC. Played non stop. No other ads played.

Just the sports and surgery ad. Well maybe a few immigration ads. But that's about it.

[Voltaire2]

12. oh and transgender healthcare, identity rights, employment non-discrimination rights, etc.

and all of that is being taken away, right now, in multiple states. And there is no real problem with bathrooms, and there is no real problem with transgender women in sports. Both of those are the actual focus of rightwing lies and exaggerations, that and of course puberty blockers for transgender children, another manufactured non-real problem but one that has transformed the lives of trans gender youths, allowing them to postpone care decisions until they are adults.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Tolerance is the posture that neutralizes the issues

Tolerance and silence. Because it takes the high road while placing the spotlight on those who choose to display their intolerance. If they want to make an issue out of live and let live, have at it.

[Intractable]

3. Pronouns can be hard to get used to.

I personally have problems saying "they" (plural) when I formerly would say "he or she." I would write it as "s/he."

I am not offended by any such things, but I am supposedly "woke."

Those who are less-than-liberal often use gender interpretations as an excuse to be offended.

[Demovictory9]

7. Some people want to be called "it". That would be hard for me to adopt

[Intractable]

8. "It" implies they aren't human. I have some problems with words. I have no problem treating people with respect.

I remember the famous Timothy Leary using the word "hir" to mean "him or her." I liked it!

[Voltaire2]

11. How often have you had this problem?

[Polybius]

18. I was taught in school that the word "they" means more than one

I was very surprised when I found out that it was also used by those who are nonbinary.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Untruths, Harris Walz campaigned on trans rights

I watched a lot of their campaign events and they always talked about it.


I don’t really know why Harris Walz is being depicted as being silent because that just isn’t true. Perhaps NOTUS has a hidden agenda, but I keep hearing this about Harris Walz and I am compelled to say something.

Plus NOTUS has a paywall, so I can’t read anymore than what you posted.

https://glaad.org/fact-sheet-harris-education/

https://transequality.org/news/advocates-trans-equality-endorses-vice-president-kamala-harris-president

[Celerity]

6. NOTUS does not have a paywall, I have never been blocked from an article of theirs that required me to pay to view, but

here is an archive link anyway

https://archive.ph/5S1i2

[Voltaire2]

10. That is an example of the absence of spine that alienates voters.

The leadership is constantly pushing the party to the right on economic issues, and now also on social issues. Forever chasing the nonexistent moderate republican voters, because that worked for Clinton, and arguably for Obama. It makes us appear utterly unconvinced of the validity of our own core beliefs.

[JI7]

16. Results speak for themselves. Clinton And Obama won

And if they were running instead of Harris they would probably have publicly come out against Transgender women in women's sports and maybe any certain treatments or procedures for minors.

Kamala Harris already had to deal with the misogyny.

[Blue_Tires]

13. It's not an issue with a wide enough base of support

My low-information ex-gf (who is now "born again&quot abandoned Harris and wrote in Cornel fuckin' West just because of "forced transition of kids and boys playing girl's sports" 🙄

And even though it had nothing to do with us, that Algerian boxer in the Olympics who became a global controversy after everyone smeared as a man also hurt us badly...

[JI7]

17. That's the thing I'm sering with this issue. When it came to same sex marriage

most that learned democratic were supporting it. While most Republicans opposed it. There are always a few on both sides that took the opposite position but mostly support and opposition went by party .

But on certain areas concerning transgender people many that lean.left are opposed . Even many gay , lesbian and bi people are opposed.