Democrats begin to walk away from supporting Trans athletes in sports….

Republican have done so for a while….

Some Democratic politicians seem to be choosing ALSO to do so also going into the November Midterm when confronted with the issue……..

Two years ago, President Donald Trump’s campaign buried then-Vice President Kamala Harris with ads on transgender issues as he stormed back into the White House.

Now, Democrats are confronting a fresh wave of attacks that sound like Trump’s – and this time, after a party reckoning about how to address the topic with voters, they are responding more forcefully.

Some Democrats in competitive races are stating their clear opposition to trans athletes playing in girls’ sports teams or even saying they oppose trans “ideology.” Candidates like James Talarico in the Texas Senate race are trying to reconcile past positions receiving new scrutiny. And others, like former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, are downplaying certain issues altogether, noting their states already have laws addressing them.

Some of the candidates’ strategies have proven controversial within the party and among advocates for transgender people, who fear further marginalization of their community, but praise from other Democrats who believe the party needs to defuse the issue.

A CNN poll released Wednesday found that transgender issues were less important voters in the midterm than 10 other issues that were tested, starting with the economy. But asked who they sided more with on transgender issues, voters gave the GOP an edge….

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In 2024, Trump’s campaign hammered Harris with ads using the tagline, “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you.” The attack stemmed from comments that Harris made in 2019 expressing support for gender-affirming care for transgender people in federal prison.

Harris later conceded in her memoir that it was a “winning message” and that her campaign should have “given even more attention to how we might mitigate Trump’s attacks.”