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Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., seems to person been financially rewarded for taking a basal against transgender athletes successful women's sports, but his critics aren't backing down.
Moulton raised $547,153 from Election Day successful November to the extremity of 2024, according to The Boston Globe. That fig is 10 times higher than what helium raised successful the aforesaid play successful 2022, and 80% of the donations were $100 oregon less.
"I deliberation astir Democrats privation to enactment this contented to bed, truthful that we don’t support losing connected it," Moulton told the outlet.
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The congressman was 1 of the astir vocal Democrats to talk retired against transgender inclusion successful women's and girls sports aft his party's sweeping predetermination nonaccomplishment for the White House, House of Representatives and Senate.
Moulton initially made his comments blaming his party's stance connected transgender inclusion successful a New York Times nonfiction Nov. 7, conscionable 2 days aft the election, past repeatedly doubled down connected that stance amid backlash from those wrong his ain party.
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Moulton's comments prompted a pro-transgender rally extracurricular his bureau Nov. 17, and present a 2nd rally is planned for extracurricular his bureau Tuesday, Jan. 28.
Salem metropolis Councilman Kyle Davis, who organized the rallies, antecedently told Fox News Digital determination is simply a sizable Democratic contingent successful Massachusetts that plans to superior Moulton successful 2026.
Even though Moulton has publically disavowed supporting transgender inclusion successful women's and girls sports, helium inactive voted against a measure that would assistance combat it past week.
Moulton joined 206 Democratic representatives who voted against the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act Jan. 14. Moulton antecedently cosponsored the Equality Act and Transgender Bill of Rights, some of which would let transgender athletes to vie successful women's sports.
On Tuesday, 2 Democrats joined the Republican bulk successful voting successful favour of the measure — representatives Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas. But Moulton, contempt present opposing transgender inclusion, voted against the measure Tuesday, saying helium does not privation children to beryllium "subjected to the invasive violations of idiosyncratic privateness this measure allows."
That statement was akin to 1 galore different Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., person made, insisting it would empower kid predators to springiness genital examinations to young girls.
The measure passed successful the House with bipartisan enactment and is moving to the Senate, and immoderate Democratic voters person chosen to permission the party successful effect to their representatives' kid predator argument.
A caller New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports.
Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women.
Shortly aft November's election, a national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them.
And 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."
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