In the year since voters reelected Trump to the presidency, it has become conventional wisdom among Democratic strategists and pundits that the party’s support for transgender people was too heavy a political burden to carry and helped send Trump back to the White House. Billionaire-backed groups like the Searchlight Institute—founded by former John Fetterman aide Adam Jentleson—specifically decry the influence of LGBTQ rights activists for leaving Democrats vulnerable to Republican attacks, and centrist troglodytes like Rahm Emanuel have let no podcast invite go to waste in their quest to blame transgender people for the faltering image of a party they themselves have been the face of for more than a decade. Spanberger—who focused her campaign on electricity prices and Trump’s DOGE-backed war on the civil servants that dominate the economy of northern Virginia, and resolutely declined to support the imposition of statewide anti-trans laws—won handily in the face of these ads, with voters actually preferring her approach to transgender rights by 12 points.
Author: Gillian Branstetter
Published at: 2025-11-07 14:19:11
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